uttering Meaning & Definition

  • En [ ˈʌt.ər]
  • Us [ ˈʌ.t̬ɚ]

Meaning of uttering In English

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  • When producing an utterance, a speaker's illocutionary intention is his intention to perform some illocutionary act(s) in uttering those words.

  • If so, the composition of the respective monuments would be that of personages uttering their own calendrical names.

  • He shows recognition of the customer's intended word by uttering it and thereby correcting her nonnative pronunciation (line 18).

  • Uttering is a process producing a statement in language (only a discursive element) and assigning a structural position to this statement in the dialogue2.

  • Here again, there is disconnection with the situation of uttering because of the hypothetical marker if, which serves as the locator.

  • Furthermore, uttering a string with quite different linguistic content, such as the bus is late again, would have had a similar effect.

  • Thus, uttering the intransitive verbs go and fall in transitive frames evidently is intended to suggest causative interpretations.

  • Descriptively used negations, like descriptively used positives, are often followed by a clause which provides evidence for the belief expressed in uttering the first clause.

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