Fact-generating performativity in the speech genre of arguing

The article focuses on performative characteristics of arguing as a speech genre. Performativity is defined as fact-generating potential of a text, i.e. its ability to generate facts of two types - 1) as focusing on actual phenomena and 2) as cultural phenomena. Hence, the speech genre of arguing is characterized by two types of fact-generating performativity - factual (realized through objection) and event-correlated performativity (realized through argumentation).