Thus, participation is structured through utterances becoming resources for others to use that reflect a dialectic relationship between structure and agency (Sewell, 2005).
Elsewhere, Patañjali says that a word is perceived through the auditory organ, discerned through one's intelligence, and brought into being through its utterance (Mahābhaṣya, I, p. 18).
But Episcopalians ritually enunciated their beliefs at every service, through the utterance of one creed or another.
Like the origins of a river, thinking can be traced back to some special, private pre-linguistic place, it becomes language inside our heads, then makes its way into the light of day through public utterance.
Indeed, it is primarily through liturgical utterances (e.g., the Lord's Prayer in Christianity), that religious identity is signalized and faith confessed in most religions.
"Comrade Julius Malema has been charged with various violations of the ANC constitution, including bringing the ANC into disrepute through his utterances and statements on Botswana and sowing divisions in the ranks," the party said on Friday.
Aides acknowledged that the information would probably trickle out soon enough, through an unguarded utterance by Mr. Bush or an offhand comment by an official at one of the schools.
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.
For most speech acts, the utterance through which the act is performed e.g., "I name this ship the Queen Elizabeth"—is neither true nor false, though the performance may be infelicitous in various ways, as when a person who is not authorized to name the ship cracks a champagne bottle against the bow and utters "I name this ship the Generalissimo Stalin".
Not all implicit performative utterances can be made explicit through a performative utterance.
