Sentence examples for linguistic acts from inspiring English sources

That includes linguistic acts.

Linguistic acts seem to share such properties with mental states.

Laws are not linguistic acts, or even communicative acts.

Moreover, common law systems cannot be distinguished from legal systems consisting only of linguistic acts, because no legal system consists only of linguistic acts.

Pragmatics is the study of linguistic acts and the contexts in which they are performed.

Linguistic acts struck him as respectable empirical phenomena, and he made them an essential element of his theory of law.

The problem he raises is that any particular linguistic act is intelligible as a linguistic act intelligible, that is, as instituting linguistic policies only given the prior understanding that the meaning-creating utterance itself means something.

An illocutionary act is the linguistic act performed by using that sentence; it is inherently communicative in nature.

In fact, properly understood, language encompasses all expressive acts whatsoever, and every linguistic act is one way or another an expressive act.

Bentham, by contrast, needed the 'sensible' phenomenon of a perceptible, intelligible linguistic act for his purpose of expounding the nature of law by reference to empirical phenomena.

One of the most important is the following: whilst presentations are not linguistic (1911a, 104), meaning something is a linguistic act, for it always bears what Reinach calls "linguistic clothing".