Glenney Boggs, C. (n.d.). Speech acts: Constative and performative - Colleen Glenney Boggs. Retrieved from TED-Ed. Last visited: May 29th, 2020. Available at: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/speech-acts-constative-and-performative-colleen-glenney-boggs#watch
⇝ According to the theory of the British linguist Speech Act by J. L Austin, he developed how messages express speakers' intentions. Thus the words themselves are actions. Consequently, this theory has mentioned that exists a difference between the two separate parts of speech. On the one hand, the constative sentences which describe something true or false. For example, He is the most intelligent student. On the other hand, it is referred to as the performative sentence which is mentioned as the performance of an action. They are sentences that denote or convey an action because they allude to motivate actions rather than relate a message that is why they perform in the Word. Consequently, the performative should have the proper authority, it should be understood, it should be clear and it should be able to be executed. Moreover, If you do not pay attention to the performative, you have to suffer the consequences. That means that constative is and a performative does. For example, I sentence you to death.⇜
