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Performativity vs Perlocution - What's the difference?

performativity | perlocution |

As nouns the difference between performativity and perlocution

is that performativity is (philosophy) the capacity of language and expressive actions to perform a type of being while perlocution is (linguistics) the effect the terms used by a speaker can have on another speaker and their emotions and responses.

performativity

English

Noun

(wikipedia performativity)
  • (philosophy) The capacity of language and expressive actions to perform a type of being.

    • perlocution

    English

    (wikipedia perlocution)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linguistics) The effect the terms used by a speaker can have on another speaker and their emotions and responses.

    • Derived terms

    * perlocutionary

    Related terms

    * locution * illocution