Performative utterance
Performative utterances are those speech acts which perform the action the sentence describes.Examples:
- "I now pronounce you man and wife."
- "I sentence you to death."
- "I promise to be there."
- "I apologize."
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See also
J. L. Austin -- illocutionary force -- linguistics -- pragmatics