In Linguistics, 'utterance' is often used for the action of pronouncing orally a sentence, but philosophers tend to also include writing, signing, and other modes of language use, and for the action of using a sub-sentential expression.
This paper attempts to find a path through this apparent impasse by proposing not only that prosody and punctuation both realise the same function – that of information structure – but that they do so in a natural relationship to the spoken and written modes of language, respectively.
It has the character of what Heidegger calls "reticence" (Verschwiegenheit), which is the privileged mode of language in Heidegger.
It's just that the reality it represents is nighttime reality, the dream life, which Joyce believed required the invention of a new mode of language.
Art is a universal mode of language.
The authors believe it is not just language but mode of language learning that makes the difference.
The discussion aims to reveal how texts intended to be read aloud are more likely to be punctuated for prosody, while texts that will remain unspoken are likely to be punctuated for grammar, but that punctuation realises the function of information structure in written texts by exploiting the potential of the mode of language and maintaining a natural relationship between function and realisation.
In 1878, the mode of language education delivery changed following the publication of two reports on the matter.
Mode: Role of Language, Channel, Medium.
"Fundamentalists reject, or even burn, all products of contemporary popular culture, because their modes of production, languages and styles are not intrinsically Christian Most children understand that magic is used in fairy tales and juvenile supernatural fiction as a century-old language, and that this is fiction, not reality.
In his wonderful The New Book of Forms, Lewis Turco tells us that poets "focus on mode, on language itself".
