performative utterance

noun

Etymology

Coined by British philosopher J. L. Austin (1911–1960).

Definitions

  1. A sentence or other linguistic expression which, when expressed in an appropriate…

    A sentence or other linguistic expression which, when expressed in an appropriate context, actually does or accomplishes something.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for performative utterance. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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