What I have called semiotic theories of expression in dance usually focus on artistic dance expression as a form of communication that functions in a way that is similar to language, through "utterance" or through actions, signs, symbols and/or gestures that are "purposeful" or intentional in some way.
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.
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.
In other words, what exists comes into being through performances (or utterances, to use Austin's term).
For this reason, the MLLR adaptation technique in our experiment was performed incrementally through the test utterances.
In contrast, in comprehending implicatures conveyed through non-conventionalized utterances, examinees typically explained their inference chain based on the content of the most relevant adjacency pair, and, in doing so, they often drew on background knowledge and personal experience to justify their interpretations.
According to the Mishnah in Pirkei Avot (5:1) and expounded upon by Kabbalah, the agency of creation was Divine speech -- the 10 utterances through which God spoke the world into existence.
