Utterance

Discourse Discourse deixis, also referred to as text deixis, refers to the use of expressions within an utterance to refer to parts of the discourse that contains the utterance — including the utterance itself.

These are often referred to as X-phemisms: citation whether the utterance is dysphemistic or not depending on the context of the utterance.

This model could be used to describe all human language and to predict the grammaticality of any given utterance (that is, to predict whether the utterance would sound correct to native speakers of the language).

Time adverbs can be relative to the time when an utterance is made (what Fillmore calls the "encoding time", or ET) or when the utterance is heard (Fillmore’s "decoding time", or DT).

Besides, he wants the court to interpret section 1 of the legislative houses (Powers and Privileges) Act 2017, which confers immunity on him from any civil or criminal litigation in respect of any utterance he makes on the floor of the upper chamber.

Every utterance is monitored, tagged and sent back out into the wild to multiply.

He said the utterance was a gladiatorial challenge directed at the judiciary, and by implication, the rest of the democratic polity.

People who once would only have dared to hint that the masses are pig-like in the comfort of their own homes, while clinking glasses with a like-minded highbrow, were now giving utterance to such corrupt thoughts in the public sphere.

The defense minister’s office later denied this utterance, but all the horses were already out of the barn.

What I consider the most cynical utterance in the entire literature of Americana — H.L. Mencken's "No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public" -- presents a point of view I eschew enthusiastically.

His quiet has been noticed in Washington and on Wall Street, where his every utterance is tracked.

Instead, she might say, “Oh yeah” 10 times or some other completely meaningless utterance that lacks any real passion.

The leader of the human survivors, Madeline (snow-haired Olwen Fouéré, whose unblinking intensity makes every utterance stick), has been trapped in the magical forest — magical in a not-fun way — the longest.

His cruelty was widespread and just an utterance of his name would bring many people to a tremble.

Indeed, there's no evidence that the studio or the Motion Picture Association of America (who rate movies) interpreted his utterance as "f--k," but when it's pointed out.

It’s back with a vengeance, lurking in the subtext and sotto voce of virtually every headline and utterance from the above precincts with respect to the Covid-19.

One fears, however, that we may be waiting a long time for Scott Morrison to give utterance on this frightening, anti-democratic action by our most important ally.

The leaders unlike President Trump utterance on "Black Lives Matter", are expected to be sensitive and respectful to all other citizens of the society.

The Nigerian military said the “unguarded utterance targeted at the Nigerian Military is inciting and instigative.

This isn’t just a random utterance, either.