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

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
Joseph Conrad