Sentence examples for performative statement from inspiring English sources

J.L. Austin once suggested that "a statement of 'the law'" is a performative statement, rather than "a statement of fact" (Austin 1962, 4 n.2).

The Cool In Her Boris Kachka | New York | 8 December 2013 Profile of Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers. "Auburn-haired, 45, and vaguely resembling Patti Smith, Kushner thinks, talks, and even writes like a visual artist: performative statements of purpose in place of irony or self-deprecation.

He distinguished performative statements as those that do not simply describe a state of affairs, but bring them about.

A performative contradiction is a statement whose effect goes against its intended meaning.

There is a certain amount of performative modesty in this statement, but it's also probably true.

Austin famously claimed that performatives are not statements (1962, p. 6).

Performative utterance Austin contrasted between statements, traditionally considered as the only utterances with any philosophical importance, with performative utterances that would not be considered as being true or false, and rather than merely saying something are better considered as acts of doing something.

In others there was a statement of intent, a performative threat in the form of an episode of self harm [ 43].

It was more performance art than performative fandom.

Following Austin's discussion, all utterances end up being performative, so that the contrast between them and statements seems to make no sense any more.

Performative endurance, or endurance as performance?