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Noun Concept
Categories: Formal semantics (natural language), Philosophy of language, Pragmatics
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performative utterance  performative  performative sentence  Performative speech act  Performative statement
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In the philosophy of language and speech acts theory, performative utterances are sentences which not only describe a given reality, but also change the social reality they are describing. Wikipedia
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