This conception still counts resigning, promising, asserting and asking as speech acts, while ruling out convincing, insulting and growing six inches.
On this conception, resigning, promising, asserting and asking are all speech acts, while convincing, insulting and growing six inches are not.
"We're electing a new president, and I stand here tonight as my own man," he asserted, promising to fight against "powerful forces" on behalf of working Americans.
These promising results assert the potential of synthesized nanocomposite in the development of efficient practical high-capacitive energy storage devices.
Some hold that the requisite assurance is sufficiently binding that the speaker's assertion to a hearer, under standard conditions, amounts to the speaker's giving his word to the hearer (Thomson 1990; Elgin 2001; for comparisons of promising and asserting, Watson 2004).
While Arrington is promising to sue, Rathakrishnan asserted that Fusion Garage had no contracts with Arrington or TechCrunch and that Fusion Garage owns all the intellectual property related to the device.
The relation between asserting and promising is discussed in detail in Watson 2004.
Speech act theory, Theory of meaning that holds that the meaning of linguistic expressions can be explained in terms of the rules governing their use in performing various speech acts (e.g., admonishing, asserting, commanding, exclaiming, promising, questioning, requesting, warning).
You immediately saw the events of 9/11 as a second and more promising opening to assert U.S. supremacy.
Mr. Vinroot, who ran as more of a conservative this year than in his unsuccessful 1996 primary race for governor, asserted that Mr. Easley "won by promising to spend more of your money".
