Sentence examples for content of a speech from inspiring English sources

It certainly helped that Carter cared deeply about what he was saying, that he was committed to it as he seldom was to the "content" of a speech.

Mr. Biden, then 44, appropriated the content of a speech from the British politician Neil Kinnock — including biographical details, like being the first in his family to attend college, that didn't apply to Mr. Biden.

The illocutionary force and the propositional content of a speech act determine its conditions of success and satisfaction.

We discuss presupposition, the phenomenon whereby speakers mark linguistically the information that is presupposed or taken for granted, rather than being part of the main propositional content of a speech act.

This has nothing to do with the content of a speech, but rather the context of my convictions".

We used Austin's theory because it is a form of discourse analysis that links the content of a speech act (in this case, what board members said; what Austin calls the 'locution' of a speech act) with its intended effects on others' behaviour (its 'perlocution') both in its immediate setting (i.e., board meetings) and beyond (i.e., in the rest of the organisation).

Remarks, after all, about the leaked contents of a speech that, at the time, had yet to be actually delivered.

Bernie has the highest favorability ratings in 2016, in large part because he no problem disclosing the contents of a speech.

"The City, as is the case for all governmental entities, is very limited in its ability to restrict the content of any speech in a public area," McFarland said.

A perlocutionary classification captures the practical content (locution) of a speech act, in this case what the EDs were being asked to do.

Also under discussion was the content of a proposed speech on the Middle East by a senior member of the administration -- probably Secretary Powell -- around the time of the United Nations gathering.