I’m an online comic junkie, and I love dinosaur comics, which is usually smart, ironic, and hilarious. Yesterday and today T-Rex took up the topic of performatives, drawing, obviously, on J.L. Austin’s How To Do Things with Words. T-Rex’s character isn’t completely right about performatives, but he’s learning!
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I study rhetoric and composition as a PhD student in the English Department at Penn State University.
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