The perlocutionary force is the indirect meaning of the message, roughly characterized by what the utterance makes another agent believe.
The utterances made headlines on front pages across America and dominated TV news networks.
Our framework incorporates category-theoretic entities for the utterances made in an agent dialog and for the commitments incurred by those utterances, together with maps between these.
In fact, we pretty quickly got over all embarrassment about everything, even the 10th grader and the sixth grader, who have been known, in their home country, to be mortified by any public utterance made by a parent or sibling.
Translation, Bellos proposes in a dryly explosive statement, rather than providing a substitute instead "provides for some community an acceptable match for an utterance made in a foreign tongue".
There can hardly be an utterance made by a Protestant on a matter of faith in self-awareness as a Protestant that has not been echoed by a Catholic.
It has, then, the ontological status of actions: each utterance is a unique historical event; it is a token, not a type; an utterance made by one speaker cannot be made by another one; an utterance made here and now cannot be made there later.
In effect, the doctor's utterance makes infants into girls or boys.
FROM the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli and now to the dust of Kandahar: the deployment of American marines in Afghanistan this week proves more powerfully than all the supposedly epochal utterances made since September 11th that the United States is both serious about its campaign against al-Qaeda and well on the way to winning it.
Just as "Bert is carrying a gun" can be made true, in the pretense relevant to this utterance, by Bert's holding a twig, so, on this view on metaphor, can Romeo's "Juliet is the sun" be made true by features of Juliet and of the relation between Romeo and Juliet, given the pretense that Romeo's utterance makes relevant.
