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From: rrrainr...@aol.com
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Sent: Fri, Mar 12, 2010 6:10 pm
Subject: Re: (,) WHAT PERFORMATIVE MAIL MEANS DEPENDS UPON THE KINDNESS OF
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per·for·ma·tive (pr-fôrm-tv)
adj.
Relating to or being an utterance that peforms an act or creates a state of
affairs by the fact of its being uttered under appropriate or conventional
circumstances, as a justice of the peace uttering I now pronounce you husband
and wife at a wedding ceremony, thus creating a legal union, or as one uttering
I promise, thus performing the act of promising.
n.
A performative utterance.
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performative [pəˈfɔːmətɪv]
adj Linguistics Philosophy
1. (Linguistics)
a. denoting an utterance that constitutes some act, esp the act described by
the verb. For example, I confess that I was there is itself a confession, and
so is performative in the narrower sense, while I'd like you to meet …
(effecting an introduction) is performative only in the looser sense See also
locutionary act, illocution, perlocution
b. (as noun) that sentence is a performative
2. (Linguistics)
a. denoting a verb that may be used as the main verb in such an utterance
b. (as noun) ``promise'' is a performative
performatively adv
THUS THE VOICE OF MAIL ART AS PERFORMATIVE MAIL
UTTERS ITSELF INTO EXIST-STANCE BY BEING SPOKEN FOR
I DO CONFESS PERFORMATIVE MAIL IS A MEANS TO A KIND
AS I TYPE A TYPE OF MAIL ART PERFORMS ITSELF INTO BEING
IN THE FORMATIVE STAGE ON THE EDGE OF PER... ~ periods Pact
of Paper Dolls Cut-OUTs
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From: tamarawyndham tamarawynd...@yahoo.com
To: ma-network@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Fri, Mar 12, 2010 1:51 pm
Subject: (,) PERFORMATIVE MAIL Re: Live Matter, 2005-2008
PERFORMATIVE MAIL - sounds like an action, rather than an object.
--- In ma-network@yahoogroups.com, par...@... wrote:
Reed: now I speak of mail-art as PERFORMATIVE MAIL. Perhaps you can
explain to me what I ought to mean by performative -- Bill
In a message dated 3/11/2010 1:42:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
ralte...@... writes:
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