That quite perfect utterance is made by Nelly Zhang, a painter and the elusive love interest of the novel's protagonist, Tom.
Austin placed great emphasis on the ways in which illocutionary force is determined by the institutional setting in which an utterance is made; an utterance such as "I name this ship the Queen Elizabeth," for example, counts as a christening only in a special set of circumstances.
On the surface, as each utterance is made in a particular dialogical context, it may be surprising that a recording speaks so strongly to a student.
Independent of the specification of such a standard, S's u assertion lacks a truth-value much as, by comparison, indexical expressions such as "The barn is nearby" do not get a truth-value independent of contextual facts about the context of use (i.e. the context in which the utterance is made).
No, what was notable was the city where those utterances were made.
Whether or not their utterances are made in contexts where a warrant of truth is present is not at all clear" (Saul 2012, 11).
Since, in this case, all speakers' moral utterances are made true or false by the same mental activity, then this is not strictly speaking a version of relativism, but is, rather, a relation-designating account of moral terms (see Stevenson 1963: 74 for this distinction).
The student utterance maps were made using a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in which I recorded the names of students who made an utterance along with corresponding time stamps of the utterance during the lesson.
For example, the utterance may be made true by Juliet's bearing the right type of real-world relation to Romeo's well-being.
When we evaluate a single token utterance of "There will be a sea battle tomorrow" produced on (say) Monday, this counts as neither true nor false when the context of assessment is the context in which the utterance is being made (as multiple possible histories are open at this point).
