performance

an ad hoc element representing the concept of the speech act that is carried out in the real world, ¶3-5-2, figure 4; a p. symbolizes at least three primitive elements: 1) a neustic of certainty on the part of both speaker and hearer of the utterance, 2) the mutual perception of the phrastic, and 3) the causation of the utterance to initiate a change in the real world