LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Performance is the ultimate objective of all human beings.
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Language is used to indicate action as well as thought.
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Individuals perform gender actively.
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All of the above answers are correct.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Austin’s definition Performative utterances are not true or false, that is, not truth-evaluable; instead when something is wrong with them then they are “unhappy", while if nothing is wrong they are “happy".
Detailed explanation-2: -Austin says that in uttering a sentence the speaker per-forms an illocutionary act of having a certain force, which is different from the locutionary act of uttering the sentence, which is to have a meaning, and also from the perlocutionary act performed by uttering the sentence, which is to achieve certain effects.
Detailed explanation-3: -Austin pointed out that we use language to do things as well as to assert things, and that the utterance of a statement like “I promise to do so-and-so” is best understood as doing something-making a promise-rather than making an assertion about anything.
Detailed explanation-4: -Within the same total speech act Austin distinguishes three different acts: locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary. The locutionary act is the act of saying something, the act of uttering certain expressions, well-formed from a syntactic point of view and meaningful.