Is it simply "performative" -- a space where feelings and reactions can be more safely aired than in physical spaces?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference

The wording thus has an extended or connotative aspect to it, becoming what Austin called a performative utterance.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 2] Reference

So, the plan for victory is what we in the lit crit business call a performative; that is, a saying whose action is accomplished in the uttering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marshall Grossman: Plan For Victory] Reference

The first question is about the "performative" nature of blogging, meaning that bloggers are performing for an audience.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference

You can do things with words (language is "performative").    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

Is it "performative" for us-is it a message which shapes our life in a new way, or is it just.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Shirley Clarke's "Bridges-Go-Round" contrasts these by featuring no performers at all, instead using camera movement and editing to create a kind of performative bridge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paste Magazine] Reference

It is, you realize, the performative element that you'll miss.    From Wordnik.com.  [what you do best] Reference

In effect one acts while in an aesthetic or performative trance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taoism] Reference

Exploring Curriculum: performative inquiry, role drama and learning.    From Wordnik.com.  [February 2009] Reference

Gender Trouble presented her theory of gender as essentially performative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continental Feminism] Reference

He further distinguished between explicit and implicit performative utterances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pragmatics] Reference

(Austin presents the distinction between performative and constative utterances.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Pragmatics] Reference

What is the “performative attitude” that is to be reconstructed in such a theory?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jürgen Habermas] Reference

Many works are performative, with film and digital video pieces dominantly represented.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jelena Kristic: Exploring Greater New York 2010] Reference

For this room gains its performative raison d'être from its relations to other spaces.    From Wordnik.com.  [GreenCine Daily: Rouge. 10.] Reference

Consent in general may be understood as either attitudinal or performative (Kazan 1998).    From Wordnik.com.  [Feminist Perspectives on Rape] Reference

And if vanishing from sight is a performative example of being "Anywhere U. S.A", we get it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kevin Smokler: The Shelf Talker: Hip-Hop, Watchmen and New Zealand] Reference

But our relationship to the past is not only cognitive, but also expressive or performative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philosophy of History] Reference

Not all implicit performative utterances can be made explicit through a performative utterance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pragmatics] Reference

A performative is doing something by speaking; paradigmatically, one can get married by saying "I do" (Austin, 1961).    From Wordnik.com.  [Pragmatics] Reference

Nation, she didn't have the same mediagenic, comedic performative way with people and -- and so she wasn't as popular.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carry A. Nation: Retelling the Life] Reference

If I shared this belief, I would state, upon oath: "In future, the nomen omen shall have no performative force over me.".    From Wordnik.com.  [nomen omen] Reference

The concept of performative utterance was supplanted in the development of speech act theory by the concept of speech act.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pragmatics] Reference

In particular, performative utterances to be felicitous must invoke an existing convention and be invoked in the right circumstances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pragmatics] Reference

In a 2005 interview, she dubbed Body Collage a “feminization of performative actions that moves around in the culture in odd ways.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reports of Painting���s Death Grossly Exaggerated] Reference

Even if one believes that the truth is relative, constructed, malleable, perspectival, or performative, a scholar is dutibound to say so.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Seery: Harvard, Say It Ain't So!] Reference

They could also mail the dead around the world in a continuous loop of postal packages, the world's first airborne, performative cemetary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Posting the Dead] Reference

Consent is not mere consensus or approval; it is a performative commitment that undertakes an obligation through the very act of consenting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legal Obligation and Authority] Reference

There's no greater example than his landmark performative piece Cremation Project (1970), in which he formally ended his career as a painter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rebecca Taylor: All I Really Need To Know I Learned From Baldessari] Reference

He did not adopt J. L.Austin's suggestion that a statement of law is a ˜performative™ rather than being a statement that can be true or false.    From Wordnik.com.  [Law and Language] Reference

From a performative feminist perspective, feminism is a project of anticipating and creating better political futures in the absence of foundations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Feminist Political Philosophy] Reference

And if you're looking for contrived and performative, just email me and I can give you the URL's of some of Me-Generation-The-Sequel's best and brightest.    From Wordnik.com.  [kinaesthesia Diary Entry] Reference

Because when you turn a discussion into theater -- when you consciously heighten its performative nature -- you are doing more than just expressing yourself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Blankenship: The United Nations as Theater] Reference

The real target, though, was the undeclared super delegates, and the argument there was more like a performative - look, see how we are removing this as an issue from the table?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama To Give Major Speech On Race, Wright] Reference