However, the utterance only succeeds in having this function if certain external conditions are fulfilled. The distinction between sentence and utterance is of fundamental importance to both semantics and pragmatics. The interpretation of an utterance involves the integration of information across different levels of linguistic description and across time.
There was, moreover, a vehemence of utterance and gesture curiously at variance with the reticence of our Virginians. The uncertainty of this utterance is indicated strongly in Stoppard's stage directions. But why did the speaker deliberately produce an utterance which required reformulation? She could choose her own partner in matrimony, as long as she gave no utterance to her passions and emotions.
The gifted Dorothy Wordsworth described Coleridge as "thin and pale, the lower part of the face not good, wide mouth, thick lips, not very good teeth, longish, loose, half-curling, rough, black hair," - but all was forgotten in the magic charm of his utterance. Yet Schmiedel speaks of this as " a well ascertained case in which an utterance of Paul regarding himself is spitefully twisted to his discredit. Still, the lower animals make no approach to the human system of natural utterance by gesturesigns and emotional-imitative sounds, while the practical identity of this human system among races physically so unlike as the Englishman and the native of the Australian bush indicates extreme closeness of mental similarity throughout the human species.
The weight of opinion now tends to deny that any part of this much-discussed document save the last sentence bears the marks of an infallible utterance. Living on for some time apart we do not know exactly where , after his flight from St Gildas, Abelard wrote, among other things, his famous Historia Calamitatum, and thus moved her to pen her first Letter, which remains an unsurpassed utterance of human passion and womanly devotion; the first being followed by the two other Letters, in which she finally accepted the part of resignation which, now as a brother to a sister, Abelard commended to her.
The particulars of his case have been investigated by Dr Bucknill and Sir William Wilde, who have proved that he suffered from nothing that could be called mental derangement until the "labyrinthine vertigo" from which he had suffered all his life, and which he erroneously attributed to a surfeit of fruit, produced paralysis, "a symptom of which was the not uncommon one of aphasia, or the automatic utterance of words ungoverned by intention.
Others use stronger language, and it seems to be confessed that either from shyness, from pride, or from physical defects of utterance , probably from all three combined, he did not attract strangers. Neander, Harnack, Dr Armitage Robinson and James Martineau, whether it represents a real utterance of Christ and not rather the liturgical usage of the region in which the first gospel was compiled.
In the deathless volume of Chatiments, which appeared in , his indignation, his genius, and his faith found such utterance and such expression as must recall to the student alternately the lyric inspiration of Coleridge and Shelley, the prophetic inspiration of Dante and Isaiah, the satiric inspiration of Juvenal and Dryden.
They are as litigious as a lawsuit - without any summing up; the end comes in a moment with a text of Scripture or an utterance by one of the great Fathers. Hence theology is not to be the utterance of individual Christianity merely, but of the Church's faith, embodied in its classical literature, the New Testament, and subordinately in the Old.
Before the War of Independence Arianism showed itself in individual instances, and French influences were widespread in the direction of deism, though they were not organized into any definite utterance by religious bodies. This was the first time that the voice of Demosthenes himself had been heard on the public concerns of Athens, and the utterance was a worthy prelude to the career of a statesman. Yet there seemed reason to expect that it would at least be interpreted in a liberal spirit, and Galileo's friends encouraged his imprudent confidence by eagerly retailing to him every papal utterance which it was possible to construe in a favourable sense.
He was a fighter through and through, and his courage was superb; but he was indiscreet in utterance , impolitic in management, opinionated, self-confident, and uncompromising in nature and methods. They possess that lyric note of personal utterance which the public prizes in a man already famous. From this movement in turn is derived the articulatory gesture, the utterance relating to the perceived object.
Explosive, scolding and harsh notes are so intermingled with its song that the psychological meaning of its varied utterance is obscure. It is designed to be supplemented by and interact with theories of utterance interpretation.
It is used in English word order to supplement spoken words but does attempt to present every element of the spoken utterance. It is not easy to decide how far claims to inspired utterance existed among these Montanists of the West. No philosopher would give utterance to, or endorse, such a sentiment. As reconstructed by Lowes, the poetic utterance is a latent presence that speaks in and through the poet.
If this were a mere human utterance it might well be deemed profane, as tending to make little of his death. Thus, every verbal utterance has at least two " meanings ". Nevertheless, it is to be expected that now and then a meaningful utterance will be produced.
For example now is taken to mean some point or period in time that matches the time of the speaker's utterance. We have evaluated these confidence measures for utterance verification using a number of different metrics.
Nor can it be considered anything but a gain that he was thus induced to expound his views with regard to those topics, and in connexion with those problems, which were the traditional forms of philosophical utterance. It was written in English instead of Latin in order that "hereby the simple of this Band may be instructed"; and the author apologizes for the language and his own mode of expression in the following sentences: "Whatsoever therfore through hast, is here rudely and in base language set downe, I doubt not to be pardoned thereof by all good men, who, considering the necessitie of this time, will esteem it more meete to make hast to prevent the rising againe of Antichristian darknes within this Iland, then to prolong the time in painting of language"; and "I graunt indeede, and am sure, that in the style of wordes and utterance of language, we shall greatlie differ, for therein I do judge my selfe inferiour to all men: so that scarcely in these high matters could I with long deliberation finde wordes to expresse my minde.
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What is a Sentence — Definition, Structure, Types 2. What is an Utterance — Definition, Characteristics 3. A sentence is a complete thought or statement which conveys a complete meaning. This can either be in the spoken or written form. Thus, a sentence at least primarily consists of a subject , a verb , and an object.
Addition to this fundamental parts in a sentence, there may be phrases and clauses as well. However, what should be kept in mind is that a sentence is a group of words that give a complete meaning. In linguistics, sentence structures with regard to varied languages are learned. In the English language, the structure of a sentence is as follows:.
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