The present paper aims at discussing the question of identity from a pragmatic perspective. Needless to say, adopting a "pragmatic perspective" entails adopting an interdisciplinary approach, once pragmatics is a hybrid field, first appearing within Philosophy, then disseminating into Linguistics and into the major realm of language studies. The paper deals, therefore, with a certain delineation of a performative view of identity, such theoretical construct that occupies a central place within the agenda of both human sciences and the contemporary social life.
identity; speech acts; pragmatics; late modernity