[lit-ideas] Re: Can, logically, there be any such thing as a "performativ...
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 23:06:36 EDT
In a message dated 5/30/2009 5:22:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
CB's words were/are not a performative contradiction, at least not in the
exact same sense that "2" may be one. "2" is one in a way similar to "This
statement contains only three words" may be one. CB's injunction to "Stop
being so %"$"%"% rude" is, logically, very different: for one, it is a moral
injunction rather than a statement of fact; for another, sometimes an
emphasiser like &%%"^&&" might be thought justified and not rude.
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I submit to the facts:
---- begin quoted post
STOP BEING SO FUCKING RUDE!!!
>
> Chris Bruce,
> dispensing wth the polite insincerities, in
> Kiel, Germany
At the risk of seeming a tad pedantic in these moments of irrational
passion -
is there any other kind of passion? - may I suggest that cb's exhortation
(to
render the utterance euphemistically) may be a case of performative
self-contradiction?
--- end quoted post.
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