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Taking as a starting point a research experience in collaboration with two Mapuche interlocutors, this article explores learning derived from the proposal they were making to us: basically, embarking on the intersubjective, interepistemic and interexistential production of knowledge. Intersubjective, because the goal had to be to transform/complete our understandings and selves in and through the interaction. Interepistemic, to the extent that it had to open ourselves to recognize not so much other knowledge but other ways of knowing. Interexistential, since it would expose us to the opacity of certain ontological borders according to which the practice of conversation can, in its being done, involve --at least for some-- living human persons and non-human beings. On this basis, we aim to intervene in broader debates about certain mandates and extended conceptions of contemporary anthropological work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Outstanding education is a high-level policy narrative in England rehearsed by school leaders, politicians, policy-makers and inspectors alike. The 'legitimacy' of knowledge, performativity and discourse-based analysis are mobilised to examine outstanding. The paper explores how informants in the English state secondary education sector described and experienced outstanding. From examining policy documents and empirical data, the paper suggests that outstanding has become a performative tool 'hijacked' by inspection regimes. It concludes that, despite the informants' best efforts, the neoliberal and performative policy discourses which surround outstanding appear to increasingly wield a disproportionate, even tyrannical, influence upon the English education system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An essay is presented which discusses the concepts of parresia, performatives, and passionate utterances and their ethico-political implications. Topics discussed include the contribution of passionate utterances to the philosophy of language, parresia as a structure of perolocutionary effect, and an overview of the book "Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow" by Stanley Cavell which discussed the theory of language as action.

This article seeks to open up a re-examination of the relationship between thought and language by reference to two philosophers: John Austin and Jacques Derrida. While in traditional philosophical terms these thinkers stand far apart, recent work in the philosophy of education has highlighted the importance of Austin’s work in a way that has begun to bridge the philosophical divide. This article seeks to continue the renewed interest in Austin in educational research, yet also take it in new direction by exploring Austin’s wider philosophical concern within the William James Lectures with the nature of language. The significance of the philosophical turn to language has entered the agenda of a number of philosophers of education in recent years. The main aim of this article will be to present, as a starting point for further work, an account of language that does justice to the way language actually operates. The article will argue that Austin’s account of the performative opens up new possibilities in this regard and yet—for reasons that will be made clear—also fails in the final instance to carry these through. By illustrating the way Derrida’s philosophy works, contrastingly, to take these possibilities to their full conclusion, I will argue that Derrida succeeds in bringing a radically new conception of language to the fore. The article will end by pointing towards some of the implications of the initial exploration conducted here to be developed elsewhere—particularly for the ways we think about thinking. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A literary criticism is presented of the novella "Brief einer Unbekannten" by Austrian author Stefan Zweig. Topics discussed include the language use concept of appropriate circumstances, developed by British philosopher of language John L. Austin, the concept of performativity, and the film adaptation of the novella entitled "Yi ge mo sheng nu ren de lai xin" by Chinese actress and director Xu Jinglei.

This article explores the pedagogical significance of non-static and hybrid utopian readings and writings by focusing on Margaret Cavendish's educationally-philosophically neglected female utopia The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World. It questions the exaggerated, inflated and exclusivist emphasis on the pedagogical benefits of homologous spatial signifiers of entry into utopia and return to home and draws examples of utopian passages across genres, texts, minds and worlds from the writing of Cavendish. Such passages can be read as performative ways of hybridising and reinventing both the utopian topos and the traveller's identity. New space is thus opened for learning as imitation and re-writing rather than as a return to, or manifestation of, an original self. Finally, new performative means for fashioning pedagogical authorship, nurturing the other's learning, and fashioning intellectual growth are promoted. Such means comprise mutuality of pedagogical initiatives, improvisation through imitation and supplementarity of cooperative writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines Welsh young people's "performance" and construction of their bilingualism with the help of empirically grounded conversation analysis (CA) and performativity theory grounded in poststructuralism. Some of the incompatibilities, particularly conversation analysts' narrow conception of context are resolved with reference to dialogical theory. It is argued with the help of video-recorded empirical data that a fine-grained analysis using CA is able to trace the emergence of varying bilingual identities as well as the negotiation of meaning in situ. To take the analysis beyond single situated actions, however, it is argued that we need recourse to the broader situation-transcending constructs offered, for example, by dialogical and performativity theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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 discursive events involving victimised subjects. I propose that performativity's descriptive purchase is best gauged by foregrounding its presuppositions, and that these last include a Peircean conception of semiosis and a rhetorical postulate of genre. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This paper develops the ethical and political proposal created by the American philosopher Judith Butler from the critical concept livable world. The implicit question into this writing is: who cannot fully inhabit the social world? The first section explains what Butler does mean as a livable life, and also what unlivable life means. In the second, the last problem is studied in terms of language livability. After an ethical exam of the performative theory of language it is shown how, after the failure of repeated linguistic norms, agency appears, and unlivable lives get the capacity for action and can signify in a different way the terms that oppress them. The conclusion shows how Butler's critical ethics radicalize democracy doing the necessary questions to make the world a more livable place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: This text is the result of reflections that originated in the discussions of a study group composed of undergraduate and postgraduate students in a language lab at a public university in the interior of the state of Paraná, in the south of Brazil. This study specifically addresses some considerations about the connections that can be established between written language and identity based on the work of and Bauman (2005). In order to do so I utilise data derived from study group discussions in order to reflect on aspects of identity that derive from beliefs that overlook the aspect of performativity inherent in writing. I conclude that writing and identity are not pre-formulated, they are both in a constant process of construction and the integrationist approach is an important element in the effort to better understand this complexity and broaden the view of the interrelationship between writing and identity. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Speech act theory was developed in the twentieth century by the philosophers J. L. Austin and John Searle. This paper provides a brief introduction to the theory and then explores some aspects of it that seem relevant to concepts in archival science, particularly connections between speech act theory and a conceptualisation of records as persistent representations. The paper focuses on ideas about the role of representation in the performance of speech acts, the potential impact of speech act theory on perceptions of the record, and the importance of societal conventions in understanding the affinities of records to human action. It argues that records have performative characteristics and that, by potentially offering a middle way between the extremes of objectivist and interpretivist views, speech act theory can help us to comprehend relations between records, actions and events. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This chapter focuses on The Erotics of Gossip, a radio piece by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean commissioned in 2001 for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Listening Room programme. The piece explores the positive and negative ways in which gossip is viewed in western and non-western cultures, and suggests that it can be creative or destructive, ethical or unethical, depending on its cultural context. The Erotics of Gossip is a sound technodrama, a hybrid and discontinuous form that mixes performance, sound, technology, and different genres writing. The chapter argues that The Erotics of Gossip explores the contradictory faces of gossip through the superimposition of different contemporary writing environments, from poetry, fiction, and drama to digital transformations of words and voice in 'voicescapes'. It also proposes that The Erotics of Gossip comprises a distinct genre 'performative fictocritism'. Fictocriticism juxtaposes creative and academic writing environments and breaks down their separation and autonomy. The Erotics of Gossip is fictocritical because it draws on the academic literature about gossip arising out of the disciplines of history, anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, communications theory, cultural theory, and literature, and juxtaposes or merges allusions to that academic literature with creative writing. It is performative because it is an off-the-page work with dramatic and technological elements designed for radio, rather than an on-the-page work designed only for reading. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to relate the Biblical Revelation to the charisma of the Inspiration as a social and community dimension. In order to achieve it, the Author uses categories of Philosophy of Language, specially the concept of language's performativity or impressive dimension of the Word. The most important quoted author is Luis Alonso Schökel baside other thinkers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this review article is to analyze some of the main theories dealing with perlocutionary and illocutionary effects. Based on this review, two groups are determined." a) theories dealing with mainly perlocutionary effects, and reduced illocutionary effect on listener's comprehension of what speakers say and try to do; and b) theories that reelaborate this notion of illocutionary effect with a more active role on the part of the listener, but without considering the perlocutionary effect in a comprehensive way. We conclude that no theory integrates illocutionary and perlocutionary effects in an analysis model of real communicative interaction; which could be a possible topic for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Much of the best contemporary work in the philosophy of language and content makes appeal to the theories developed in generative syntax. In particular, there is a presumption that—at some level and in some way—the structures provided by syntactic theory mesh with or support our conception of content/linguistic meaning as grounded in our first-person understanding of our communicative speech acts. This paper will suggest that there is no such tight fit. Its claim will be that, if recent generative theories are on the right lines, syntactic structure provides both too much and too little to serve as the structural partner for content, at least as that notion is generally understood in philosophy. The paper will substantiate these claims by an assessment of the recent work of King, Stanley, and others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the issues concerning the conventionality of deeper aspects of language. According to the author, there are probably two reasons to doubt the conventionality of language, including the concept of closely tied up with logic in which logic is not conventional and the generative linguistic that do not have any humanly possible alternatives. Furthermore, he presents his arguments regarding the two aspects of language in which he begins with an outline of what social conventions are and how they differ from other types of norms.

This essay presents a thorough exploration into the disambiguation of the philosophical concept of performativity, particularly that as explained by the later works of Jacques Derrida in regards to speech acts. The author maintains the hypothesis that performativity in relation to an artistic presentation has nothing to do with the similar term of performativity in relation to enunciation as a speech act. Definitions of the term are given, along with several examples relating to different uses of the word in various contexts.

The article presents abstracts of studies about Jean-Paul Sartre. They include "The Impossible Project of Love in Sartre's Being and Nothingness, Dirty Hands and The Room," "Concrete Consciousness: Sartre's Relevance to Contemporary Philosophy of Mind" and "The Double Writing of Les Mots: Sartre's Words as Performative Philosophy."

The critical commentary on Judith Butler's Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative focuses primarily on her use of speech-act theory for political purposes. Admitting the limitations of Austin's work, she introduces an extended supplement to her linguistically based performative theory in Excitable Speech: a discussion of embodied subjectivity presented in ways never before instanced in her work. That is, in this text, she continues to use speech-act theory articulated with Derridean iterability (her usual practice) to ground performativity, while presenting a version of embodiment newly derived from psychoanalysis to establish the political efficacy of the subject. Although this shift has gone unremarked in the literature, Butler herself treats this psychoanalytic dimension as animating the entire argument. This article reviews her logic and the place that psychoanalysis holds in her theory to establish the viability of the embodied political performative and its utility for historicism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: Recent accounts of institutional and social facts share at least three theses. (1) Performativity: a shared attitude of certain type towards an institutional fact may contribute to the truth of a sentence describing the fact. (2) Reflexivity: if a sentence describing an institutional fact is true, the relevant attitude is present. (3) Qualified realism: institutional terms refer to entities and properties that exist. The problem discussed in this paper is the following: can new facts and things of this type emerge in a group without at least some of its members having some false beliefs about those facts? Thesis (2) states that a sentence p describing an institutional fact can be true only if the members of the relevant group have the relevant attitude at time t (typically, they at least believe that p is true). But if they do not already hold the required attitude before t, how can they correctly form it at time t? They may form the belief for false reasons: they may, for example, form the belief that p has always been true. And then, according to the Performativity Thesis (1), p may become true. But it seems that they need some false beliefs in order to begun the process of creating the institutional fact. The idea that the emergence of new social/institutional facts requires false beliefs is disturbing. But, perhaps, the attitude needed in Thesis (1) should not be analysed as a factual belief. In the last part of the article the notion of recognition is offered as an alternative. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

The article discusses the notion of performativity as part of the movement against the notion of 'thinking' by René Descartes which is an argument of co-extensivity. The author points out that the notion of performativity names an approach that refuses to tie the fact that 'there is thinking' to identity or ontology. She adds that to speak of performativity in relation to the subject of subjectivity is to focus on the practices of this conditioned element within the various matrices by which it is sustained. The author quotes Judith Butler's thesis which interrogates differentiated subject formation within practices that sustain lines of power and power effects.

This article explores the everyday by considering how certain media images in Barnardo's recent advertising campaigns in the U.K. have ‘cut through’ the daily ‘media clutter’ to cause extensive public protest and discussion. Drawing on Eve K. Sedgwick's and Silvan Tomkins' work on affect as embodied in everyday experience, as well as J. L. Austin's speech act theory, I argue for sustaining investment in, if not the photograph's truth status, then in its capacity to draw attention to public rationalisations for (mass) suffering. Specifically, I discuss how the ordinary (everyday) slippage between indexical and iconic aspects of any photograph enables organisations, such as charities or even governments, to deploy the shame affect to sustain or extend divisions between people, as well as its own ‘established power’. The final section considers these ideas in relation to an Australian example, the ‘children overboard’ photographs in 2001 which instigated a public scandal. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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, which ground the development of the performative subject within sociality, necessarily make ethics intrinsic to any understanding of performativity. Using the case of serial killer Karla Homolka, I explore four aspects of ethical relations—identity, otherness, responsibility and response—demonstrating that at each moment, performative theory encompasses, and indeed relies upon, an ethical foundation. I contend that this is particularly evident when we consider the role of narrative in exploring each of these aspects. The paper explores four different narratives of Karla Homolka's experience, developed in Lynn Crosbie's book on Karla Homolka's murderous partnership with Paul Bernardo, Paul's Case . Each “story” presents a performative relation, which clearly relies upon intersubjectivity, and thus upon an ethical relation to others. This narrative performativity allows for social contextualisation and an addressee/addresser relation that exceeds the individual self, while preserving the fragmented and contingent nature of the subject, which is the hallmark of performative theory of subjectivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The notion of performativity has become a significant means of understanding the construction of sexual and gendered identities. Ironically, the same concept has posed certain problems for theatre studies because of the definitional tensions between performativity and theatricality. The following study of Genet's The Maids as both playtext and production proposes that, in this example, theatricality is the vehicle for the expression of performativity and that Genet's drama prefigures contemporary strands of cultural thought and theory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Demonstrates that Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's 1670 preface to a 16th century text on rhetoric by Marius Nizolius offers a historical perspective on the relationship between figurative language and performativity in philosophical discourse. Hos Leibniz's discussion of rhetoric and prescriptions for philosophical writing are in tension with the rhetorical pratcices exhibited in the text.

Provides information on the performative basis of modern literary theory. Formation of the term performative; Definition of performative utterances according to authors J.L. Austin, John Searle and Jacques Derrida; Overview of the concept of performative language; Comparison of performative language with allegorical and symbolic languages.

Deals with the notion of the performative, an utterance that accomplishes the act that it designates, proposed by philosopher J. L. Austin. Use of the notion of the performative for literary theory; Function in theory and criticism associated with deconstruction; Role in gender studies and queer theory.

Focuses on letter writing and the performativity of intimacy in female pedagogical relations. Analysis of selected writings of Jacques Derrida; Performativity and performance of language; Conception of pedagogical retreat.

Focuses on the performative account of language. Subsumption of education to the efficient functioning of the social system; Comments of Michel Foucault on the effects of language; Analysis of power based on Anglo-Saxon analytic philosophy.