Sentence examples for linguistic utterances from inspiring English sources

They are only one of many kinds of performative utterance, or speech act (Austin called them "illocutionary acts"), which consist of social acts performed by means of linguistic utterances in appropriate circumstances.

Given these constraints though he did not indicate how we do understand linguistic utterances.

That is, linguistic utterances are normally the product of internal thinking activity, which they express.

There is also behavioral evidence that animal signals may be context sensitive in the same way linguistic utterances are.

The view that belief requires language is a natural consequence of the view that belief attribution is inextricably intertwined with the interpretation of a subject's linguistic utterances.

The relevant semantics of language is said to be the transduction from linguistic utterances to internal representations, and the relevant semantics of the internal representations is said to be the way they are deployed in understanding and thought.

Kumārila was, in this regard, critical of the Sanskrit grammarians' sphoṭa ("bursting forth") theory of meaning, which had been elaborated precisely to account for the expression of meaning in light of the manifestly temporal character of linguistic utterance.

Certain types of spontaneous act are such as to require as a matter of necessity a linguistic utterance or some other overt performance of a non-natural and rule-governed sort.

In particular, it is probable that in order to access the meaning of a linguistic utterance, structural processes must interface with semantic ones.

Namely, any speech act involves a linguistic utterance that is set in a particular physical setting, and has a particular action sequence structure and assumptions associated with it, which differ between speech act types and make it possible to differentiate between them based on the features most relevant for the communicative function they convey.

Even those linguistic items uttered by the adult care-giver could hardly be taken as conveying the semantic value of the utterance to the infant.