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TY  - JOUR
VL  - 48
IS  - 2
T2  - Philosophy and Literature
SP  - 381-97
ID  - bbbo493
T1  - "Christening the Constantive: Infelicity in Shakespeare's Sonnets."
AU  - Lamb, Julian
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2026
KW  - speech acts
LA  - English
AB  - Asks what sort of speech act the speaker of Shakespeare’s sonnets performs when he swears that the dark lady is fair, contradicting what is self-evidently true. Notes that, as an act of swearing, the statement is performative, but it also describes, or “constates,” something about the dark lady, albeit falsely. Coins the term “constantive” to identify such a speech act that both performs and constates, and which demonstrates performative force only because it is descriptively dubious, or even self-evidently false. English summary, 381.
ER  -