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• Comment
  A statement that is made about a [[topic]] is the '''comment'''.
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• Mood
  ...categories are associated with the way sentences are used: [[indicative]] (statement), [[imperative]] (command), [[optative]] (wish), etc. Sometimes the distinc
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• Intonation
  ...vowels. It might tell the listener whether the sentence is a question or a statement, or whether more will follow. Intonation may also signal differences in mea
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• Quantifier (in predicate logic)
  In [[predicate logic]], the [[logical constant]] indicating whether a statement is universal or particular is calles '''quantifier'''. The [[universal quan
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• Deklarative
  Englisch [[statement]] <br> Französisch [[déclarations]] <br>
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• Realizational formula
  A '''realizational formula''' is the type of algebraic statement that is appropriate for the description of structural relationships accordi
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• SPOAC model
  |'''[[STA]]'''||[[statement]]
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• Developmental plausibility
  ...at there is no plausible avenue that could lead to their development. This statement applies also to some network theories, such as the well-known
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• Proposition
  ...fined as the content of a sentence on the basis of the meaning of a simple statement, which can be true or false. It is part of the ''[[Speech act]]'' theory ma
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• Maxim of manner
  ...eaker than your knowledge of the world allows, unless providing a stronger statement would contravene the I-principle." (Levinson 2000: 76)
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• Roman Jakobson (de)
  -Linguistics and Poetics: Closing Statement (in Style in Language, Hg. Thomas Sebeok, 1960)
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• De dicto and de re
  ...eves that someone (namely Hubert) is a spy. The ''de dicto'' reading is a statement about the subject's beliefs about the more general existence of a spy. For
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• Face-threatening act
  * Apology: “I think I made a huge mistake.” -> The speaker makes a statement about his/her own shortcomings, thereby 'damaging' his/her own positive sel
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• Performative
  ...shes performatives from constatives which are used to make a true or false statement. Performatives do not have [[truth condition]]s but [[felicity condition]]s ...with a more general theory of speech acts, stating that "the traditional 'statement' is an abstraction, an ideal" (Austin 1962: 148). Performative verbs as cri
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• Ambiguity, Polysemy and Vagueness
  ...ther a male animal of different kinds, a swearword or an official order or statement from the Pope. As ambiguity is context dependent lexical disambiguation (kn The lexeme ''tall'' in the statement “He is a ''tall'' man.” is vague as well. ''Tall'' belongs to the group
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• Operational plausibility
  ...allusions (e.g. to Hamlet by quoting) and Freudian slips. For example, the statement ''Something is rotten in the state of Florida'' conjures up Hamlet to peopl
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• Irony
  Although A produces a false statement, the hearer assumes that A observes the [[cooperative principle]] and hence
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• James D. McCawley/publications
  ..., 1974a, 1975egh, 1976bdfgi, 1977ade, 1979b, and (previously unpublished) 'Statement vs. rule in linguistic description'; with introduction and notes.
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