http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performative_utterance
The notion of performative utterances was introduced by J. L. Austin. According to his original conception, it is a sentence which is not true or false but instead 'happy' or 'unhappy', and which is uttered in the performance of an illocutionary act, rather than used to state something (Austin originally assumed that stating something and performing an illocutionary act are mutually exclusive).[1] Other writers (Eve Sedgwick, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault) use the term, too, but in quite different ways.
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