Sentence examples for the utterance itself from inspiring English sources

The illocutionary force of a message is any change in the world that is directly caused by the utterance itself.

2. Expression individualises; rather than describing the emotion in words whose signification is in principle general, the expression is a feature of the utterance itself (although he does not credit him, this is an evident example where Collingwood follows Croce).

The meaning of a quotation lies in the utterance itself, but it should also be understood in relation to its original context.

According to an Egyptian document known as the "Memphite Theology," Ptah created humans through the power of his heart and speech; the concept, having been shaped in the heart of the creator, was brought into existence through the divine utterance itself.

8. Selecting the context of utterance itself as the context of assessment relevant for assertion avoids an early critical point made by Gareth Evans (1985: 349 50): if it is left open when to assess an assertion, so that an assertion can be correct at one time and incorrect later, the speaker aiming at correctness cannot decide what to say.

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.

Or the utterance context itself may cancel the implicature, as when it is obvious to all that the speaker is engaging in understatement.

In their performances the act of utterance itself took on a sort of soaring nervous power.

Above all, he sees Lispector as a latter-day cabbalist for whom utterance itself is the act of creation: for her, God is among those thus created.Lispector did not choose to say much about herself directly.

I am the utterance of my name.

It heightens the sighing intensity of the utterance.