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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024per•for•ma•tive (pər fôr′mə tiv),USA pronunciation adj. [Philos., Ling.]- Linguistics, Philosophy(of an expression or statement) performing an act by the very fact of being uttered, as with the expression "I promise,'' that performs the act of promising.
n. - Linguistics, Philosophya performative utterance. Cf. constative.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: performative /pəˈfɔːmətɪv/ adj - denoting an utterance that constitutes some act, esp the act described by the verb. For example, I confess that I was there is itself a confession, and so is performative in the narrower sense, while I'd like you to meet … (effecting an introduction) is performative only in the looser sense
- (as noun): that sentence is a performative
- denoting a verb that may be used as the main verb in such an utterance
- (as noun): ``promise'' is a performative
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