Performativity
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Performativity in the Philosophy of Language
The notion of the performative has been used to distinguish between what's vered and not covered by the first amendment. At stake here i the perennial question among constitutional law scholars about which forms of speech really are simply free speech that conveys a viewpoint on the world. And so for example, the feminist theorist ray langton has used the austinian framework of performatives to talk about what is wrong with phronography. The problem is that tonography twists the meaning of the word no to mean yesit'seroticiseYes.
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