constative in English
adjective
1
denoting a speech act or sentence that is a statement declaring something to be the case.
Performative criticism begins in the gap between constative sense and dramatic consequences.
noun
1
a constative speech act or sentence.
While explicitly posing the question of whether the performance of this ethical language can ever be free of the constative (the language of ontology), his own performance of the ethics of reading is impressive indeed.
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1. Constative (plural Constatives) (linguistics) An utterance relaying information and likely to be regarded as true or false
2. In other words, the meaning of the poem is a reflexive and Anguished uncertainty about the nature of poetry itself, a pure lyric refusal of constative or narratable content.