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?
September 8, 2010
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“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! 😉
Comment by Kirk Lowery — September 9, 2010 @ 6:18 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.)
Comment by Patrick Durusau — September 9, 2010 @ 8:34 am