This formalism plays a central role in two processes: language understanding, which uses constuctions to interpret utterances in context; and language learning, which seeks to improve comprehension by making judicious changes to the current set of constructions.
The character of I is simply a function that associates an utterance of I in a particular context with the individual who makes that utterance in that context.
Character is a property of linguistic expressions (types); content is a property of utterances —sentences-in-context — (tokens) of them.
However, he reformulates this to a test question to which the known answer is Ireland, perhaps recognising the ambiguity of his incomplete utterance in the context of turns prior to this extract, in which Maureen has been identified as the carer.
In particular, a link between the CPS as an on-line marker for utterance segmentation in context-free (i.e. single sentences → CPS at major prosodic boundaries) vs. context-bound (i.e. dialogs → CPS to focus/accent positions) speech processing is to be drawn.
Finally, if Austin viewed the locutionary act rather than the illocutionary act as the fundamental target of assessment as to truth, then it would be difficult to understand Austin's treatment of performative utterances in the context of his distinction between locutionary and illocutionary acts.
A bound form is one that cannot occur alone as a complete utterance (in some normal context of use).
Default interpretations are here defaults for processing of an utterance in a particular context.
The content of McCain's utterance in the second context is that McCain is in DC at that time, so the intension assigns T to the world of that context, w2, and F to the worlds where he is in Arizona on inauguration day.
Instead of conveying the commitment of the speaker to the truth of the utterance (in non-future contexts), they express different grades of confidence on the side of the speaker in different temporal contexts.
Utterances are sentences used in context, at a particular moment and place, by a particular person.
