| As with intimacy, it may be best framed in terms of performativity and performance, embodiment and duration. |
| They have become institutions measuring performativity in a very quantitative sense that favours the style of work of certain academics over others. |
| Action signs, like vocal signs also take part in deictic reference, indexicality and performativity. |
| In its utopian aspect modularity denies the necessity of given identities, as implied by the concept of performativity. |
| Music, because of its performativity, can powerfully shape the nation. |
| It also posits that femininity and masculinity are socially constructed rather than biological givens, emphasizing the performativity of gender. |
