performative

a. [语][哲](表)述行(为)的 n. [语]述行语,述行成分

词形变化

performatives 复数 performatives more performative 比较级 most performative 最高级

别名

preformative

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A performative utterance.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Being enacted as it is said.

    语言学 哲学

    Saying "I do" as part of a wedding ceremony is performative, enacting a marriage.

  2. 2.

    Insincere, inauthentic or disingenuous; done solely or largely as a performance, to produce an impression or enhance one's reputation.

    We were beginning to suspect that her ethical qualms were sometimes performative, as the urgent need for fairness and justice seemed to apply to some people but not to others.

相关短语

performative utterance performative utterances performative authoritarianism

词源

From perform + -ative.

来源：wiktionary