ANT 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Social Theory, Performativity, Social Relation
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Words can inform, intimidate, and inspire not only by what they explicitly convey ( referential function) but also what they imply our grade in class. Words can hurt, make us happy, sentence us to death ( performativity ), make. A common perspective on language is that it only reflects the word; that is communicates the state of things without impacting them in any way. Proposed that linguists should focus on ordinary language in order to examine how it is that we do things with words 1962. Austin proposed that we do things with words using particular kinds of sentence/utterances, which he called performatives. Types of speech acts: depending on their form and function, austin distinguished different types of speech acts. Speech acts theory treats the felicity conditions as a give, an unproblematic set of social arrangements. Language and its use ate related to power and inequality.
