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Publication details [#26698]

Lee, Benjamin. 1995. Performing the people. Pragmatics 5 (2) : 263–280.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

nation | performativity | philosophy | self-consciousness

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

ISBN

1018-2101

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This paper focuses on the oral and textual performativity of respectively the American Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, which builds upon a self-reflexive turn shaped by Western philosophical thought (Descartes, Locke).