1. According to John Austin and to those who follow his approach, “performatives” are utterances that do more than just convey information. “Performative” function of language results in changing things for people by “doing things with words.”
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False
2. Grammatical gender which is a formal property present in many languages including English, fully correlates with social gender.
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False
3. Amalia Sa'ar’s research on the use by women of masculine generics in Hebrew and Arabic shows that female speakers always use feminine grammatical gender to refer to themselves and their female addressees.
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False