It seems as though whatever is currently being rolled around my brain like a piece of bubbalicious ten minutes past it’s prime is akin to Darwin’s barnacle stint. I feel as though I have a lot to say about evolution, and how we humans fit into the big picture (not that any of it is particularly ground breaking or profound), but I’m not quite yet prepared to spit it out. Hopefully for my sake as well as yours, it doesn’t take 8 years.
Key Terms
Salut! Welcome to my brainy blog, where posts are inspired by things that irk or inspire me from an academic perspective. Some of the pages and posts are based on terms from a collection of essays "Key Terms in Language and Culture" edited by Alessandro Duranti; others are merely things I think about at school, or from a scientific perspective. Enjoy!
…doing things with words
Performativity is a concept coined by John Austin, and in the world of linguistics refers to a category of utterances that have no truth value since they do not describe the world, but act upon it. A way of “doing things with words”.
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