Sentence examples for interpretation of utterances from inspiring English sources

A feature of both the triangulation argument, and the Davidsonian account of radical interpretation, is that the attribution of attitudes must always proceed in tandem with the interpretation of utterances — identifying content, whether of utterances or of attitudes, is indeed a single project.

Taken together, these approaches respond to a dialogic interpretation of utterance as "social phenomenon" (Voloshinov, p. 82) whereby meanings are encountered, negotiated, disputed and refuted (dialogised) rather than received as truth.

Syntax is one of the components in the architecture of language processing that allows the listener/reader to bind single-word information into a unified interpretation of multiword utterances.

What is presupposed at a given stage has an effect on the interpretation of new utterances made at that stage.

The resulting interpretation of an utterance is the outcome of the working of such constraints.

When this sort of rational maxim governing the communication of information is flouted, the audience will look for a non-standard interpretation of the utterance that would bring it back into conformity with the maxims (Grice 1989).

Automatic and unconscious enrichment produces a default interpretation of the utterance and "[o]nly when there is something wrong does the hearer suspend or inhibit the automatic transition which characterizes the normal cases of linguistic communication".

When listening to a sentence such as "She won the lottery", interpretation of the utterance will depend on how the words are intoned (emotional prosody) by the speaker, i.e. we are usually very accurate at identifying whether the speaker is happy about this event or whether they envy the winner.

This suggests that phonological short-term memory is loaded more heavily for inflected words containing a grammatical morpheme that needs to be separated from its stem, and that performs different functions in the syntactic interpretation of an utterance.

That the outcome of the Comparative SRH question changed between 1994 and 1999 also satisfies semantic theories about the influence of situation and context for the interpretation and function of utterances and questions.

Though Goldberg suggests that either is sufficient if, in addition, were Oscar informed of the slow switch, he would disavow Twin Earth interpretations of his utterances and beliefs (roughly put) (2005, p. 114).