utterances

  • 1utterances — ut·ter·ance || ÊŒtÉ™rÉ™ns n. expression, pronouncement; saying, declaration, speech; style of speaking …

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  • 2performative utterances — Term introduced by J. L. Austin for an utterance by the making of which some further act is performed. The central examples are ‘I promise…’ or ‘I agree…’, whose saying constitutes promising or agreeing. Such utterances do not describe antecedent …

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  • 3ecstatic utterances —  Экстаз …

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  • 4linguistics — /ling gwis tiks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics. [1850 55; see LINGUISTIC, ICS] * * * Study of the nature and structure of… …

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  • 5Performative utterance — The notion of performative utterances was introduced by J. L. Austin. Although he had already used the term in his 1964 paper Other minds , today s usage goes back to his later, remarkedly different exposition of the notion in the 1955 William… …

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  • 6Baby talk — This article is about speech directed at babies. For speech like sounds produced by babies, see babbling. For other uses, see Baby talk (disambiguation). Whoopsie daisy redirects here. For the song by Terri Walker, see L.O.V.E (album). Baby talk …

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  • 7language — /lang gwij/, n. 1. a body of words and the systems for their use common to a people who are of the same community or nation, the same geographical area, or the same cultural tradition: the two languages of Belgium; a Bantu language; the French… …

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  • 8Language — This article is about the properties of language in general. For other uses, see Language (disambiguation). Cuneiform is one of the first known forms of written language, but spoken language is believed to predate writing by tens of thousands of… …

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  • 9Universal pragmatics — Universal pragmatics, more recently placed under the heading of formal pragmatics, is the philosophical study of the necessary conditions for reaching an understanding through communication. The philosopher Jürgen Habermas coined the term in his… …

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  • 10Hortative — The hortative (abbreviated hort, pronounced /ˈhɔrtətɪv/ ( listen)) is a group of semantically similar deontic moods in some languages, especially English. Hortative moods encourage or urge. There are seven hortative moods in English: the… …

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