Which of the following statements are correct?

A) The term performativity was coined by Derrida
B) The idea of meme was originally coined by Richard Dawkings
C) The term the culture industry was coined by Adorno and Horkheimer
D) The term womanism was coined by Alice walker.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

The correct option is B, C, D only.

To understand why these statements are correct, let us analyze each of the given statements step-by-step:

Statement A: The term performativity was coined by Derrida. (Incorrect)
The concept of "performative utterances" or "performativity" was originally introduced and coined by the British philosopher of language J. L. Austin in his 1955 William James Lectures, which were later published as the book How to Do Things With Words (1962). While Jacques Derrida later analyzed, critiqued, and expanded upon Austin's ideas of performativity, he did not coin the term.

Statement B: The idea of meme was originally coined by Richard Dawkings. (Correct)
The term "meme" (derived from the Greek word mimeme, meaning "imitated thing") was coined by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins (spelled as Dawkings in the question text) in his influential 1976 book The Selfish Gene. Dawkins used it to describe an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture.

Statement C: The term the culture industry was coined by Adorno and Horkheimer. (Correct)
The term "culture industry" (German: Kulturindustrie) was coined by the critical theorists Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer. It first appeared in their book Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944), specifically in the chapter titled "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception," where they describe how popular culture is akin to a factory producing standardized cultural goods to manipulate society.

Statement D: The term womanism was coined by Alice walker. (Correct)
The term "womanist" or "womanism" was coined by the feminist author Alice Walker in her 1979 short story "Coming Apart." She later expanded on the definition in her 1983 book In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose, using it to describe a Black feminist or feminist of color who is committed to the survival and wholeness of entire people, male and female.

Consequently, statements B, C, and D are correct, making B, C, D only the correct choice.