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performatively

adv

Etymology

From performative + -ly.

  1. derived from *promo-✻
  2. derived from *frumjaną✻
  3. derived from *frummjan✻
  4. derived from parfornir
  5. derived from performer
  6. inherited from parformen
  7. suffixed as performative — “perform + ative”
  8. suffixed as performatively — “performative + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a performative manner.

    • He is the God of all comfort, First, Purposely; Second, Provisionally; Third, Prescriptively and performatively.
    • Most of them can also be used performatively, however, i.e. to make explicit what kind of speech act it is the speaker performs (not all illocutionary verbs can be so used however: cf e.g. boast, threaten).

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA