Sentence examples for utterance through which from inspiring English sources

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".

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.

In this paper, we develop an account of the types of experiences through which speakers learn to design their utterances for particular addressees.

Founded in the 8th century and based on the teachings of the imam Mālik ibn Anas, the Mālikīs stressed local Medinese community practice (ʿamal) as the lens through which to understand the legal implications of the Qurʾān and the Hadith (traditions concerning the Prophet Muhammad's life and utterances).

The Contextual component is restricted to representing only those aspects of the context of a given utterance which have a systematic influence on the form of that utterance.

Pre-semantic context Pre-semantic context provides information for identifying the utterance: which words in which language with which syntactic structure, and with which meanings are being used.

A few weeks ago we were dumbfounded by the utterance, "cheese-solos," which Emma requested repeatedly.

The original supervector can not describe short utterances precisely because of insufficient phoneme data, while the relative reconstructed SVM supervectors use the relationship between a short utterance and a large set of datum utterances, which is a richer representation.

They had a lot to say on this topic, 121 utterances, which was by far the largest number of utterances for any individual factor by parents or clinicians.

Austin pointed out that descriptive utterances (which he called "constatives") hardly exhaust the range of meaningful uses of language.

Thus, both speakers understand the meanings of their utterances, which are different, by virtue of their grasping the same character.