Explore: Performative Turn

of context and the nature of authorial intentions in a performative text. The performative turn is anchored in the broader cultural development of postmodernism

sentence is a performative; – still, it is not an explicit performative, for it does not make explicit that the act the speaker is performing is a command

"Turn! Turn! Turn!", also known as or subtitled "To Everything There Is a Season", is a song written by Pete Seeger in 1959. The lyrics – except for the

essay "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory", Judith Butler proposes that gender is performative – that

"linguistic turn," which treated dance as a form of text and choreography as a structured linguistic system, to the subsequent "performative turn" which critiques

act – Utterance that serves a performative function Austin seems to have thought, controversially, that a performative utterance must be infelicitous

concepts of conspicuous consumption, conspicuous leisure, and the performative turn. This is similar to conspicuous consumption except that it does not

Speech : A Politics of the Performative. New York: Routledge, 1997 p. 161 Excitable Speech : A Politics of the Performative. New York: Routledge, 1997

the pre-modern tradition of Christian orthodoxy, building on the performative turn of phenomenology and a realist trajectory in post-analytic philosophy

A U-turn in driving refers to performing a 180° rotation to reverse the direction of travel. It is called a "U-turn" because the maneuver looks like the