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Book Chapter
PERFORMATIVE
2009
Overview
A description of utterances, sentences and speech acts the use of which is meant to create facts in addition to the fact of one of them having been used. Often, the appearance of ‘hereby’ marks the performative nature of the expression, as in ‘Master Little John is hereby created Sheriff of Nottingham’ (Robin Hood).
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Subject
ISBN
9780748626182, 0748626182
