Sentence examples for performative verbs from inspiring English sources

While these results do not allow for any firm conclusions about the relationship between performativity and indeterminacy, it provides evidence that performative verbs can express at least one type of indeterminacy.

The performative verbs used in directive and expressive speech acts belong to the semantic domain of communication verbs.

Ginet 1979 argues that performative verbs ('promise,'appoint't', etc).

Finally in section 5 we will conclude by arguing that performative verbs are a strong catalyst for the divergence of grammatical and conceptual interpretations.

And indeed, each of the three verbs REJECT, ENCOURAGE and GUARANTEE are included in Searle's (1975) direct semantic analysis of English performative verbs.

From this we can see that if the strict syntactic rules were followed and the Verbal classification was selected for each of these performative verbs, this would necessarily affect the interpretation of the entire clause.

Previous, non conversation-analytic, studies of the constructions containing Proszę "please", describe it as a performative verb that is added to another utterance to balance the explicit and unmitigated wish of the speaker to "achieve something which makes it hard for the hearer to refuse" (Królak and Rudnicka, 2006).

Our main findings are threefold: 1) inconsistency of analysis was very prevalent - we find only one of the critical clauses to be unanimously categorised for process type; 2) the main area of disagreement between analysts was the selection of Material vs. Verbal processes; 3) clauses with low consistency ratings appeared to include performative main verbs.

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".

As performatives, each of these verbs subsumes Verbal process, as all denote situations by which an exchange of meaning is inherent – be it through verbal or non-verbal gesture.

It was more performance art than performative fandom.