SPEECH ACTS or HOW WORDS CREATE POLITICAL REALITIES

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SPEECH ACTS...

When in 1962, J.L.Austin argued in "How to Do Things with Words" that expressions like “You are under arrest”
or “I pronounce you married” are not merely describing something but in fact are performing an action through language, he triggered a storm rumbling until now.

Those words create a shift in legal Status, in the norms applied to the participants.
Those expressions perform actions.

Those expressions create a new reality.

The Speech Act Theory was born and initially just outlined some institutional action-performing uses of language. (marriage, legal, etc...)

But then something happened.

Academics applied the insights to ordinary life outside institutions:
“I apologize.”, “I promise" are not just reports about actions.
They are the actions.
When A says "I promise" to B, the words perform the action of creating a commitment.

**The performative role of language started to foc