--- title: "How to pronounce \"performatively\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"performatively\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/GUf3ABxSu5c/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/performatively" --- # How to pronounce "performatively" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/pɛrfɒrmætɪvɛlɪ/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **per·for·ma·ti·ve·ly** ## Meaning & Usage ### ADVERB - In a performative manner. - *Example*: "He is the God of all comfort, First, Purposely; Second, Provisionally; Third, Prescriptively and performatively." ### Example Sentences - "He is the God of all comfort, First, Purposely; Second, Provisionally; Third, Prescriptively and performatively." - "performatively countersigned if one is to do justice to the singularity inventiveness and alterity of becket's" - "is kind of performatively participating in the discourse. Well, well, I will" ### Common Phrases - sign performatively ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (12 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "performatively" in real conversation: ### Example 1 *Accent: AUS* > "construction and the Rhythm Of The Works which for him constitute the signature that has to be countersigned performatively countersigned if one is to do justice to the singularity inventiveness and alterity of becket's work and these features of becket's writing are as dared says what remains" - **Watch at 16:10**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUf3ABxSu5c&t=970s) ### Example 2 > "sentence and think that there's like a bunch of young people who are actually talking like that, right? It it's in itself a joke. Like it to do that meme is kind of performatively participating in the discourse. Well, well, I will say, I mean, look, we've been laughing at points during this interview and talking about this being part of an online discourse and and meme culture," - **Watch at 11:36**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kMmbPLKGjI&t=696s) ### Example 3 > "them being prescribed all of these people who frankly really should know better that who have performatively broken the law with signs to make their point and they are stretched and those people have been clogging up the criminal justice system and and putting undue pressure on our courts which frankly our courts cannot afford. I blame them for doing that but I do" - **Watch at 8:00**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-AaCMM8N-w&t=480s) ### Example 4 *Accent: AUS* > "texts he's unable to counter sign performatively there's a sense in which" - **Watch at 7:56**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUf3ABxSu5c&t=476s) ### Example 5 *Accent: UK* > "that's on the table and we are going to performatively eat some beans are you happy with that uh yeah we'll do what we" - **Watch at 22:12**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC7psoeKZL0&t=1332s) ### Example 6 *Accent: AUS* > "handout how could I write sign counter sign performatively texts which respond" - **Watch at 2:52**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUf3ABxSu5c&t=172s) ### Example 7 *Accent: AUS* > "means to respond to a work of literature to countersign performatively the signature of a singular author I have" - **Watch at 3:44**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUf3ABxSu5c&t=224s) ### Example 8 > "Trump more I mean it's practically Unthinkable and he is a master of this of creating these moments of political spectacle of capturing everybody's attention and also when it comes to what he was doing in the past week very performatively doing things that his supporters want him to that are maybe not the most significant things that his administration could possibly get around to but but but demonstrate some level of delivery and whilst maybe it's going to" - **Watch at 17:36**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDrbXH_fY9Q&t=1056s) ### Example 9 > "this kind of realm there's just like I'd never heard of mog before. Yeah. Exactly. But I I think one of the reasons this has gone so viral is because people are kind of performatively and ironically participating in that discourse and using that vocabulary because it's well even if they don't buy into it >> even if they don't buy into it because" - **Watch at 4:10**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ4BBxSDhwY&t=250s) ### Example 10 > "but inflation's just gone back up again. Public finances are still not at all in a healthy position. But it it evoked for me talking to ministers about it this week. You were sort of taken back to that moment actually when they moved into number 10. And ministers did I think partly performatively but also genuinely go, "Oh my god, we didn't actually realize how bad things were." and they were genuinely nervous about the urgency of the economic problems at" - **Watch at 4:26**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW5CI-TLFTQ&t=266s) ## How to Pronounce "performatively" - **Syllables**: per · for · ma · ti · ve · ly - **IPA**: `/pɛrfɒrmætɪvɛlɪ/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Words ### Word Forms [performative](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/performative) ### Related Terms [nonperformative](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/nonperformative) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “performatively”? “performatively” is pronounced /pɛrfɒrmætɪvɛlɪ/ (per · for · ma · ti · ve · ly). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “performatively”? “performatively” has 6 syllables: per · for · ma · ti · ve · ly. ### What does “performatively” mean? In a performative manner. ### How can I hear “performatively” used in real sentences? This page has 12 real-world video examples of “performatively” with synchronized subtitles. 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