Sentence examples for acts of speakers from inspiring English sources

Pragmatics deals with utterances, by which we will mean specific events, the intentional acts of speakers at times and places, typically involving language.

In addition to the musical acts, dozens of speakers — among them the Rev. Al Sharpton, Representative John Lewis and the author Steve Perry — will give lectures on topics like politics and healthy living.

And then he's off to shelter behind closed doors, making another video about tax cuts as a solo act of Speaker of the House cosplay.

A number of speakers and musical acts stressed the importance of the newspaper's long history in the city.

In case of acted speech corpora, the relatively low number of speakers, in comparison to the sample count, could affect performance of the classifiers.

Thus for effective use there must be some act of the speaker's mind expressed by the special phrase "I promise" and its synonyms, and our moral obligation results from this act of the mind.

Accordingly, we may now say that speech acts are cases of speaker meaning that can (but need not) be performed by speaker meaning that one is doing so.

WASHINGTON -- Gay people have the political power to sway Congress to combat discrimination against them, so there's no need for a court to overturn the federal ban on gay marriage, according to lawyers defending the Defense of Marriage Act on behalf of Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and the House of Representatives.

To ensure that significant modulation of resonance is not influenced by variable numbers of speakers between authentic and play-acted stimuli, the contrast of authentic versus play acted included speaker repetition as a random factor (regressor of no interest).

Of the approximately 15 known titles, the following are certainly authentic: Neighbours, Dionysus, Heroes, Animals, Lamia, Games, Public Speakers, Samians, and Acts of Violence.

"Prevent and the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act mean the government is expecting us to censor a lot of speakers.