Sentence examples for making the utterance from inspiring English sources

For instance, the semantic rules governing indexicals ensures that the sentence 'I am here' will be true whenever uttered: 'I' always picks out the agent who is making the utterance and 'here' always picks out the place where the agent is making the utterance.

Austin took the total "speech act" as the starting point of analysis, and this allowed him to make distinctions based not only upon words and their place in a language but also upon points such as the speaker's intentions in making the utterance and its expected effect on the audience.

Thus, the argument concludes, even if the non-cognitivist account of the use of moral terms were correct, they would still possess truth conditions with contents characterizing the non-cognitive attitudes of the speaker making the utterance (Jackson and Pettit 1998).

An individualistic relativism sees the vital difference as lying in the persons making the utterance or in the persons about whom the judgment is made; a cultural relativism sees the difference as stemming from the culture that the speaker inhabits or from the culture of those about whom the judgment is made.

Each time he made the utterance, he gave a faint and characteristically Roman shrug.

That is, she must confirm that the meaning delivered by the prior theory makes the utterance a reasonable one.

On this type of view on metaphor, a metaphorical utterance is one that represents the world as it needs to be in order to make the utterance pretense-worthy in a game of make-believe that it suggests.

After decoding the sentence uttered and getting at the proposition expressed, the hearer will built a 'context' of 'implicated premises' or assumptions for getting the cognitive positive effects that make the utterance relevant.

An utterance of a sentence, i.e., a locutionary act, by means of which a question is asked is thus an utterance with interrogative force, and when an assertion is made the utterance has assertoric force (sometimes 'assertive' is used instead).

Each time a voice-tag is successfully utilized (a positive confirmation of the speech recognition result is detected and the corresponding action is implemented e.g., the call is made), the utterance is reused as another sample to produce additional phonetic strings to update the seed phonetic strings of the voice-tag through performing hypothesis combination.

But then, it seems, S would be making the same utterance whether or not a pain were occurring.