Usually means: Action done for show, effect.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. performative: Merriam-Webster
  2. performative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. performative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. performative: Collins English Dictionary
  5. performative: Wordnik
  6. performative: Wiktionary
  7. performative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. performative: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. performative: Dictionary.com
  10. Performative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. performative: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Performative: Lexicon of Linguistics
  3. Performative: Neuage Online Discourse Analysis Theory

Definitions from Wiktionary (performative)

adjective:  (philosophy, linguistics) Being enacted as it is said.
adjective:  Being done as a performance in order to create an impression.
noun:  A performative utterance.

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