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  2. Performative utterance - Wikipedia

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    Every performative utterance has its own procedure and risks of failure that Austin calls 'infelicities'. [1]: 14 He sees a sharp distinction between the individual text and the 'total speech act situation' surrounding it. According to Austin, in order to successfully perform an illocutionary act, certain conditions have to be met (e.g. a ...

  3. Performative verb - Wikipedia

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    For example, in the sentences below, 1 and 2 differ only in the verb and both are acceptable. In the corresponding pair, 3 and 4, the use of "hereby" before the non-performative verb see is not coherent because the action of seeing is not performed simply by its utterance. I confer this award; I see this award; I hereby confer this award

  4. Speech act - Wikipedia

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    For much of the history of the positivist philosophy of language, language was viewed primarily as a way of making factual assertions, and the other uses of language tended to be ignored, as Austin states at the beginning of Lecture 1, "It was for too long the assumption of philosophers that the business of a 'statement' can only be to 'describe' some state of affairs, or to 'state some fact ...

  5. J. L. Austin - Wikipedia

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    Chapters 1 and 3 study how a word may have different, but related, senses. Chapters 2 and 4 discuss the nature of knowledge, focusing on performative utterance. Chapters 5 and 6 study the correspondence theory, where a statement is true when it corresponds to a fact. Chapters 6 and 10 concern the doctrine of speech acts. Chapters 8, 9, and 12 ...

  6. Posting the Ten Commandments is a performative act - AOL

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    The irony, then, is, one could argue, requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom is a violation of the second commandment, which prohibits the creation of idols.

  7. Illocutionary act - Wikipedia

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    The notion of an illocutionary act is closely connected with Austin's doctrine of the so-called 'performative' and 'constative utterances': an utterance is "performative" if, and only if it is issued in the course of the "doing of an action" (1975, 5), by which, again, Austin means the performance of an illocutionary act (Austin 1975, 6 n2, 133).

  8. Drunk grandma stabs daughter, grandson during Thanksgiving ...

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    An angry, drunken grandma has been busted in Tennessee for allegedly stabbing her daughter and grandson with a kitchen knife during a Thanksgiving Day argument. Lachunda Johnson, 55, of Memphis ...

  9. Jessica Capshaw and Camilla Luddington on worst 'Grey's ... - AOL

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    Jessica Capshaw and Camilla Luddington talk about their new podcast and reflect on their time on Grey's Anatomy. (Corbis via Getty Images) (Stephane Cardinale - Corbis via Getty Images)