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to Do Things with Words, J. L. Austin argued against a positivist philosophical claim that the utterances always "describe" or "constate" something and...

Austin's work ultimately suggests that all speech and all utterance is the doing of something with words and signs, challenging a metaphysics of language...

Austin's doctrine of the so-called 'performative' and 'constative utterances': an utterance is "performative" if, and only if it is issued in the course of...

to convey whether the action or state is before, simultaneous with, or after some reference point. The reference point could be the time of utterance...

subdiscipline of linguistics, an implicature is something the speaker suggests or implies with an utterance, even though it is not literally expressed. Implicatures...

(Latin for "word of speaking" or "verb of speaking"), also called verb of utterance, is a word that expresses speech or introduces a quotation. English examples...

that are unique to that time and place. Heteroglossia is thus "the base condition governing the operation of meaning in any utterance" and that which...

said or written. In oral speech, it is the representation of an utterance (i.e. of something that a speaker actually said) that is introduced by a quotative...

an utterance with regard to one's own virtue, or with regard to a certain fact, followed by a command or resolution. Such a statement is believed to effect...

An interjection is a word or expression that occurs as an utterance on its own and expresses a spontaneous feeling or reaction. It is a diverse category...

words or phrases to refer to a particular time (e.g. then), place (e.g. here), or person (e.g. you) relative to the context of the utterance. Deixis exists...

Friedemann Schulz von Thun. It describes the multi-layered structure of human utterances. In it von Thun combined the idea of a postulate (the second axiom) from...

needs to hear the word "something" in order to know that the utterance contains a PP and an NP since the object NP is optional but "something" has been...

speakers' intentions. To do this, Grice distinguishes two kinds of non-natural meaning: Utterer's meaning: What a speaker means by an utterance. (Grice didn't...

contemporary use of the term "speech act" goes back to J. L. Austin's development of performative utterances and his theory of locutionary, illocutionary, and...

the previous utterance.[example needed] The highest ranked discourse entity in the previous utterance realised in the current utterance.[example needed]...

given utterance. To do this work, they used what they called the "Principle of Relevance": namely, the position that any utterance addressed to someone...

mother was Bathsheba, which may mean she is the author of the "inspired utterance" of this section of Proverbs. Many commentators typically divide Chapter...

phonologically structured human utterance, believed by the speaker to be a real language but bearing no systematic resemblance to any natural language, living...

sentences asking her to do something after instead of doing something before. In a 1981 paper Curtiss interpreted Genie's temporal utterances as an expansion...