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Performative text
About: Performative text is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 124 publications have been published within this topic receiving 1705 citations.
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1 Aug 2002
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose an allegory as speech act for allegory-as-speech act in the context of Proust's "Proust allegory".
Abstract: Preface Introduction 1. J. L. Austin 2. Jacques Derrida 3. Paul de Man 4. Passion performative: Derrida, Wittgenstein, Austin 5. Marcel Proust Coda: allegory as speech act Notes Index.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue for the methodological power of performative writing, and offer an apology on behalf of the authors of the work, which is based on the literary tradition.
Abstract: The article, divided into three sections, argues for the methodological power of performative writing. Part 1 borrows from the literary tradition by offering an apology on behalf of performative wr...
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TL;DR: The notion of performative nan utterance was first proposed by the philosopher J. L. Austin to describe a type of utterance neglected by philosophers as discussed by the authors, and it appeared useful for literary theory and what happens when literature is construed as fundamentally performative.
Abstract: The notion of the
performativeNan utterance that accomplishes the act that it
designates&Nwas proposed by the philosopher J. L. Austin to
describe a type of utterance neglected by philosophers. This article
follows the vicissitudes of the concept in literary and cultural theory
to show (1) why it appeared useful for literary theory and what happens
when literature is construed as fundamentally performative; (2) how it
functions in theory and criticism associated with deconstruction, and
(3) what role it plays in recent work in gender studies and queer theory,
where Judith Butler has developed a performative theory of gender. The
shifts in this concept pose questions about how to think about the
constitutive force of language, the nature of discursive events, and
literature as an act.
141 citations
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5 Nov 2012
TL;DR: The speech act theory of as mentioned in this paper is based on the analysis of performative utterances and its subsequent development into a general conception of language as action, which gave rise to speech act theories.
Abstract: John Langshaw Austin (1911–1960) is considered one of the most influential representatives of postwar Oxford ordinary language philosophy. Among his main contributions to the philosophy of language is the analysis of performative utterances and its subsequent development into a general conception of “language as action,” which gave rise to speech act theory.
Keywords:
20th century;
ordinary language;
speech act theory
106 citations
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