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Performativity

Performativity is the concept that language can function as a form of social action and have the effect of change. The concept has multiple applications in diverse fields such as anthropology, social and cultural geography, economics, gender studies (social construction of gender), law, linguistics, performance studies, history, management studies and…

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Performativity

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related to Bibliography and further reading · 363
Performativity → Adam Isaiah, Affect, Agency, American Folklore, An Essay, An Ethnomethodological Approach, An Introduction, Anchor, Andrea, Andrew, Annual Review, Anthropology, Anti-logos, Apocalypse Economics, April, Architecture, Art, Austin, Autobiography, Bakhtin
related to Economics and finance · 27
Performativity → Black-Scholes-Merton, Brisset, BSM, Callonian, David Lewis, Do Economists Make Markets, Donald Angus MacKenzie, Donald MacKenzie, Drawing, Economics, Ekaterina Svetlova, Enacting Dismal Science, Fabian Muniesa, In, It, Ivan Boldyrev, John Austin, Latourian, Lucia Siu, Markets
related to Jean-François Lyotard · 14
Performativity → Austin's, English, In, In The Postmodern Condition, Jean-François Lyotard, Knowledge, Liberation, Lyotard, Postmodern, Progress, Report, Revolution, While Lyotard, Wittgenstein's
related to Journalism · 12
Performativity → According, Berlin Wall, Die Tore, East Berliners, Friedrichs, Friedrichs's, Hanns Joachim Friedrichs, In, Mauer, November, The, The German
related to Video art · 11
Performativity → Additionally, Although, Carlos Aparicio, In, José Esteban Muñoz, Muñoz, Notably, Specifically, Susana Aiken, The Transformation, Theories
related to Judith Butler · 10
Performativity → Butler, Continental, Foucauldian, In, It, Judith Butler, Nietzsche's, The, They, This
related to Management studies · 8
Performativity → Austin, Barad, Barnes, Butler, Callon, Derrida, In, Lyotard
related to J. L. Austin · 7
Performativity → Austin, Breaking, Do Things With Words, Having, How, In, The
is a · 2
Performativity → concept that language can function as a form of social action and have the effect of change, function of the pragmatics of language

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Performativityis aconcept that language can function as a form of social action and have the effect of change0.90text
Performativityis afunction of the pragmatics of language0.90text
anthropologyinstance ofThe concept has multiple applications in diverse fields0.80text
socialinstance ofThe concept has multiple applications in diverse fields0.80text
cultural geographyinstance ofThe concept has multiple applications in diverse fields0.80text
economicsinstance ofThe concept has multiple applications in diverse fields0.80text
gender studiesinstance ofThe concept has multiple applications in diverse fields0.80text
Michel Foucaultinstance ofThis view was influenced by philosophers0.80text
Louis Althusser.The concept places emphasis on the manners by which identity is passed or brought to life through discourseinstance ofThis view was influenced by philosophers0.80text
performance indicatorsinstance ofto the idea of economic reality as a ceaselessly provoked reality and of things0.80text
valuation formulasinstance ofto the idea of economic reality as a ceaselessly provoked reality and of things0.80text
consumer testsinstance ofto the idea of economic reality as a ceaselessly provoked reality and of things0.80text

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