Sentence examples for explicit performative from inspiring English sources

Traugott and Dasher (2001 190) state that "linguistic conditions for explicit performative use are (typically) first person present tense, indicative, active.

It would not be unreasonable to assume that some residual semantic trace of both the congruent event meaning and the metaphorical performative meaning could be activated at the same time, irrespective of whether the clause was used as an explicit performative act, which would contribute to the indeterminacy of process type classification.

There are explicit performatives; a verb used in a certain way makes explicit the action being performed: "I bet that there is a dangerous animal there," "I guarantee that there is a dangerous animal there," "I warn you that there is a dangerous animal there".

– 12 50 p.m. I'm developing a formal framework for modeling speech acts, including explicit performatives, which involves modeling things like assertions as special cases of explicit performatives; in other words, a revival of the Performative Hypothesis (Ross 1970, Lakoff 1968, McCawley 1968, Sadock 1968).

He further distinguished between explicit and implicit performative utterances.

Austin held that illocutionary acts as opposed to perlocutionary acts are conventional, in the sense that they can be made explicit by the so-called performative formula (Austin 1962: 103).

It was more performance art than performative fandom.

Not all implicit performative utterances can be made explicit through a performative utterance.

As articulated, Danny "didn't even post or say anything…" but that did not hinder his performative enactments, characterized by non-explicit tacit knowledge, built up in repeated practice and experience (XP points), to be honored and rewarded (invitation to chief healer).

In the words of Lorelei Lee: "When I say that pornography is good for women, I mean that sexually explicit imagery in which women are shown giving performative demonstrations of their own sexual power is imagery that can transform the cultural paradigm and ultimately change the world".

Performative endurance, or endurance as performance?