Associations to the word «Performative»

Wiktionary

PERFORMATIVE, adjective. Being enacted as it is said.
PERFORMATIVE, noun. A performative utterance.
PERFORMATIVE UTTERANCE, noun. (philosophy) (linguistics) A sentence or other linguistic expression which, when expressed in an appropriate context, actually does or accomplishes something.

Wise words

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
Alfred Lord Tennyson