Sentence examples for commitment of the speaker from inspiring English sources

Instead of conveying the commitment of the speaker to the truth of the utterance (in non-future contexts), they express different grades of confidence on the side of the speaker in different temporal contexts.

The hearer proceeds by adding the entailments to (his representation of) the speaker's commitment set, then adding whatever implicatures fit in, and then adding the presuppositions that fit after that.

But he also emphasizes the basic difference: that in the case of assertion, but not in the case of promises, the commitment is to something that is independent of the speaker.

First, the Oracle argument presumes that the ontological commitments of a speaker's assertions are transparent to the speaker.

Mr. Brat has made his views vivid, putting out a list of 10 commitments he expects any potential speaker to make, including opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants and overhauling House rules to reduce the power of the speaker.

Connect a speaker cable from the speaker output of the power amplifier into a matched speaker input of the speaker cabinet.

On this view, discovering the ontological commitments of ordinary speakers is easy.

Mentiones some of the speakers.

Tells what some of the speakers said.

The quality of the speakers.

(Most of the speakers were lame).