This article proposes a post-Austinian approach to performativity by drawing from Peircean
semeiotics. The argument proceeds on three fronts. First, we establish how the performativity …

In this paper, I examine the politics of performativity that Judith Butler develops in Excitable
Speech. In particular, I assess the usefulness of Butler's talk of performativity for describing …

JL Austin took it to be a defining feature of the sorts of utterances that he came to call
“explicit performative utterances” that they are neither true nor false, despite being …

Performativity has emerged as one of the most important theoretical approaches of recent
times, with an extraordinarily varied take-up. The chapter begins with a brief introduction to …

224 Sybille Krämer embeddedness in the practices of a society. In other words, we don't
speak about the world, but act, by speaking, within the world. Originally Austin defined …

This dissertation considers the concept of performativity as it originates from philosopher of
language JL Austin (1911–1960) and examines how the concept functions with respect to a …

In “An Object That Belongs to No One: Theorizing Performativity in Relation to Trans-”,
Tawny Andersen suggests that the ubiquitous, yet little understood, concept of performativity …

'Performativity'is fast emerging as a key concept in critical management studies. Yet while
the concept's originator, JL Austin, is often cited there has been no serious engagement with …

This paper contributes to the debate among theorists of performativity as to whether this
concept is founded in an ethical relation. I argue that recent theorisations of the performative …

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