"My art is a communicative act," Ms. Rosler says, "a form of an utterance, a way to open a conversation".
Austin takes promising to be an illocutionary act, that is, he takes it that promising is merely a matter of a certain form of utterance, under certain conditions.
For all of these writers, to use language well is to use it particularly: precision of utterance as both a form of lyricism and a species of attention.
Langton points out that pornographic words and images, like utterances in general, are a form of social action.
In Bentham's view, a law is an utterance, and legal philosophy is a form of philosophy of language.
With this biased idea in mind, all other non-standard utterances get grouped into "dialects," where they are seen as a form of broken and limited English.
First, there is the argument from surface form, which maintains that the causal relata must be two to fit the surface form of utterances such as "the short circuit caused the fire".
A CA examination of such turns revealed a systematic pairing of structure with social action, such that different forms of utterance were used to convey distinct actions.
The Contextual component is restricted to representing only those aspects of the context of a given utterance which have a systematic influence on the form of that utterance.
One of their key principles was that language is being used poetically or aesthetically when the expressive aspect is predominant, and that it is typical of the expressive function of language that this should be manifest in the form of an utterance and not merely in the meanings of the component words.
Even if people say something with a straight face and blinking eyes, this form of rational utterance often has an emotional basis.
