Examples and limitations
•Promising,
commanding, declaring (e.g., war), enfeoffing, sentencing, naming, crowning…
•Staged
“performances” and imitations of speech acts
•Language and
“power”: not either/or, but mutual entanglement and
imbrication
•2 languages, one
“constative,” one “performative”?
2 bodies inherent in all of us?
•The Elizabethan
sensitivity to language