"Only in the context of a speech act does a sentence express a determinate content"(Recanati, 2004).
In general, a sentence will express a proposition such that the semantic values of expressions in the sentence will occur on the decomposition tree associated with the proposition.
Does the sentence express a sort of opposition, either contradiction or contrariety, etc.? Does the sentence express that something is more or less the case?
An Interjection (Latin interjicio, I throw in) is a word thrown into a sentence to express a feeling.
The rhythm of language expresses this, where every thought is expressed in a sentence, and every sentence closed by a period.
Comparative sentences express a situation in which the opinion about one feature is discussed in comparison to another.
The sentence will express different contents depending on who is using it, but normally the sentence will express a contingent proposition.
None was able to articulate a sentence, express an idea.
(P2b), given its exclamative, which typically conveys an attitude more forcefully than an optative (with the possible exception of regret), models even better than (P2c) the disposition of moral sentences to express a speaker's attitudes and, thereby, better models the dispositions of moral sentences to evoke an audience's attitudes via the "contagion of warmly expressed approval" (1944, 22).
But Sanford Rubenstein, a lawyer representing Mr. Arzu's family, said he hoped the sentence would express a different message, saying, "while acting as a police officer, if you kill someone recklessly, you will go to jail".
So, in this sense, the contextualist stands to lose something if it in fact turns out that the skeptic is only very rarely or never able to raise the standards for a knowledge-ascribing sentence to express a truth.
