Lost Performative

Question 1

Lost Performative Negative Example:

(Value judgments made without specifying who is making the judgment (e.g., the performer of the judgment is deleted from the statement.)

“It’s a good thing your head is attached (or you’d forget it).”

Answer 1

Lost Performative Positive Challenge:

“According to whom?”

Question 2

Lost Performative Negative Example:

(Value judgments made without specifying who is making the judgment (e.g., the performer of the judgment is deleted from the statement.)

“You have lousy taste in clothes. It needed to be said.”

Answer 2

Lost Performative Positive Challenge:

“Who needed to say it?”

Question 3

Lost Performative Negative Example:

(Value judgments made without specifying who is making the judgment (e.g., the performer of the judgment is deleted from the statement.)

“Your ideas are stupid.”

Answer 3

Lost Performative Positive Challenge:

“Says who?”

Question 4

Lost Performative (Internal Dialogue) Negative Example:

(Value judgments made without specifying who is making the judgment (e.g., the performer of the judgment is deleted from the statement.)

“I’m no good at relationships.”

Answer 4

Lost Performative Positive Challenge:

“Sometimes I think I’m no good at relationships.”

Question 5

Lost Performative (Internal Dialogue) Negative Example:

(Value judgments made without specifying who is making the judgment (e.g., the performer of the judgment is deleted from the statement.)

“I’m a slow learner.”

Answer 5

Lost Performative Positive Challenge:

“I notice that, compared to Jim and Kim, I’m faster at learning some things, slower at learning other things.”

Question 6

Lost Performative (Internal Dialogue) Negative Example:

(Value judgments made without specifying who is making the judgment (e.g., the performer of the judgment is deleted from the statement.)

“I’m a computer dummy.”

Answer 6

Lost Performative Positive Challenge:

“Working with computers is not currently one of my top skills.”