It's entirely performative, if you ask me.
Source: tatoeba (10384509)
Performative
Synonyms for "performative" (41 found)
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Noun(4 words)
Adjective(4 words)
Verb(1 words)
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Verb(2 words)
Adjective(1 words)
cultivated manners
Noun(8 words)
Adjective(1 words)
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Noun(17 words)
playactingposturingpotemkinpretend confidenceshowboatingshowysjwspeech actstagedstorytelling performancetheatricaltheatrical performancethespianthinking skillutterance-basedverbal actwoke
Adjective(2 words)
staged smiletokenish
Adjective(1 words)
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6 entriesdescriptive termgrammar categorylinguistic actlinguistic featurelinguistic propertyspeech act
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8 entriesapology utterancedramatic gesturegreeting utterancepromise utterancepromissive sentencespeech act utterancestage displaytheatrical effect
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9 entriesapology utteranceperformative actionperformative languageperformative sentenceperformative utteranceperformative verbpromise utterancespeech actverbal performative
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11 total sentences available.
Will Tebboune be forced into performative politics?
Source: tatoeba (10838480)
Saying "I do" as part of a wedding ceremony is performative, enacting a marriage.
Source: wiktionary
Thus in the example: 'By saying “I do” I was marrying her', the performative 'I do' is a means to the end of marriage. Here 'saying' is used in the sense in which it takes inverted commas and is using words or language, a phatic and not[…]
Source: wiktionary
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