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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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John Lyons on Utterances - Dictionary of Arguments
I 53 Utterance/linguistics/Lyons: unequal sentence: the actual utterances cannot be completely described by a previous description of the possible sentences of a language. >Language, >Language use. Sentence/Utterance: the distinction between sentence and utterance is fundamental to modern linguistics. But we can first develop some basic concepts without them. >Sentences. I 54 In the first three chapters(1), "sentence" and "utterance" will still be used synonymously. Later: Sentence: Unit of langue Utterance: Manifestation of the parole. >Langue, >Parole/Saussure, cf. >Grammar, >Speaking. I 174 Utterance/modern linguistics/Lyons: N.B.: neither words nor sentences nor any units of language description at all are already "given" in non-analytic material. >Analysis/Lyons. I 175 The linguist's material is the utterance. Def Utterance/Harris: "any part of a person's speech, before and after which that person is silent". That is a pre-scientific description, of course. Utterancce: many are incomplete! Therefore, they are not equivalent to sentences or words. 1. John Lyons. Einführung in die moderne Linguistik. München 1995._____________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. |
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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