Performativity
By: James Loxley.
Series: The new critical idiom
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Abingdon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9780415329255; 9780415329262
Subjects: Speech acts (Linguistics); Performative (Philosophy)
Description: "For students trying to make sense of the performativity and related concepts such as the speech act, 'ordinary language', and iterability, and for those seeking to understand the place of these ideas in contemporary performance theory, this guide will prove indispensable. Performativity offers not only path through challenging critical terrain, but a new understanding of just what is at stake in the exploration of this field."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.