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Performativity and Topic Maps

Parsing Performativity came to me by way of Sam Hunting.

Read the post, then ask yourself: Is my topic map wearing a path from point A to point B?

Perhaps performativity should be a measure of a topic map’s success?

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2 Responses to “Performativity and Topic Maps”

  1. Kirk Lowery says:
    September 9, 2010 at 6:18 am

    “Performativity”?! Is that a word? I don’t think so. How about simply “performance”? What difference in meaning could there be?

    Oh, well. Such a perversion will sink into obscurity — if not too many of us complain about it and heighten its usage! ;-)

  2. Patrick Durusau says:
    September 9, 2010 at 8:34 am

    One could say: “X has more of the quality of performance, in the sense of a performative utterance, than Y,” but “the performity of X is greater than Y” seems a bit more compact.

    If encountered outside of a specialty the second construction would cause confusion but then so would the first.

    We can talk about “perversions” of invented terminology but I would think that a professional linguist and Hebrew scholar would be reluctant to go there. ;-)

    (amended to remove a stray sentence from an earlier draft response.)