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adj. Relating to or being an utterance that peforms an act or creates a state of affairs by the fact of its being uttered under appropriate or conventional circumstances, as a justice of the peace uttering I now pronounce you husband and wife at a wedding ceremony, thus creating a legal union, or as one uttering I promise, thus performing the act of promising.

n. A performative utterance.

adj. Being enacted as it is said.

n. A performative utterance.

"It's true that I'm interested in performative "ways of reading," in tone itself, and in a poet whose tone remains perplexing, and whose affect feels excessive, to many readers."

performativity   

formative    informative    normative    uninformative   

unpliable    hippocampal-dependent    distincter    tomographic    farfetched