#performative utterances

[crowess]

Performative Language & Ritual Structure

Performative Language & Ritual Structure

John Austin is famous in language studies for articulating a working theory of performative utterances. Basically, performative utterances represent instances of speech and writing that enact something, that do something. For example, when we promise to do something— I promise to take out the garbage. I promise I won’t tell anyone. I promise to tell the truth and nothing but the truth. –we’re…

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[closet-keys]

when straights call something gay, they’re just using an adjective with a low-grade implied insult by way of connotation, but when a gay calls something gay, it is a performative utterance whereby that thing literally becomes gay by the act of a gay declaring it as such

[thelingspace]

How does our speech affect the world around us? How can we measure the changes that our words make? In this week's episode, we take a look at performative language: what you need for your words to work their magic, what different parts make up our speech acts, and how our word choices can change the way we perceive and remember events.

Here’s a fun topic that bridges from philosophy to psycholinguistics! Looking forward to hearing what people have to say. ^_^

[xalasmat-blog]

at this moment i am feeling extraordinarily blithe and lithe and loving and i am just swooping around empty rooms listening to grandiose cinema soundtracks glowing everywhere and this is me extending an arm into the virtual world and invite you into mine i want to share wonder with somebody 

[wifeofwrath]

And is it complicated? Well, it is complicated a bit; but life and truth and things do tend to be complicated. It's not things, it's philosophers that are simple.

J.L. Austin, real talk.