LING 2420 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Noam Chomsky, Performativity

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Three distinct (but related) uses of perform: performance (vs. competence, central distinction in chomskyan linguistics a. i. Competence: speaker"s abstract and usually unconscious knowledge of the language a. ii. Performance: the actual use of language in concrete situations , putting it into practice: performativity: speech act theory. Austin (1962) how to do things with words a: refers to the ability of at least some utterances to do merely by virtue of saying, speech as a form of social action. I promise, i apologize, i congratulate c. i. c. ii. Felicitous only under certain conditions: speaker has to be sincere and have the authority to perform speech act: versus constatives that simply state. From to say is to do to to say or do is to be . Performative in the sense that the essence of identity that they otherwise purport to express are fabrications manufactured through corporeal signs and other discursive means : performance as verbal artistry.

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