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| Utterance: oral performance of a sentence as opposed to the mere thinking or writing. See also actions, speech acts utterance conditions, assertibility conditions_____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Zellig S. Harris on Utterances - Dictionary of Arguments
Lyons I 174 Utterance/modern linguistics/Lyons: N.B.: neither words nor sentences nor any units of the language description are already "given" in the non-analytical material. >Sentences, >Words. >Given. Lyons I 175 The linguist's material is the utterance. >Speech act. Definition utterance/Harris: "arbitrary section of a person's speech, before and after which that person is silent". This is of course a pre-scientific description. Utterance: a lot are incomplete! Therefore, they are not to be equated with sentences or words._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
LingHarris I Zellig S. Harris A Theory of Language and Information: A Mathematical Approach Oxford 1991 Ly II John Lyons Semantics Cambridge, MA 1977 Lyons I John Lyons Introduction to Theoretical Lingustics, Cambridge/MA 1968 German Edition: Einführung in die moderne Linguistik München 1995 |
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