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In linguistics, cataphora (from Greek, forward+carry) is used to describe an expression that co-refers with a later expression in the discourse. That is to say, the earlier expression refers to or ...

evidentiality

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In linguistics, evidentiality is, broadly, the indication of the nature of evidence for a given statement, that is, whether evidence exists for the statement and/or what kind of evidence exists.

explicature

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Explicature is a technical term in pragmatics, the branch of linguistics that concerns the meaning given to an utterance by its context. The explicature of a sentence is what is explicitly said, as ...

implicature

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Implicature is a technical term in the pragmatics subfield of linguistics, coined by H. P. Grice, which refers to what is suggested in an utterance, even though not expressed nor strictly implied ...

metalocutionary act

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In linguistic pragmatics, the term metalocutionary act is sometimes used for a speech act that is about the conversation itself rather than about its primary substance.

performative text

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In the philosophy of language, the notion of performance conceptualizes what a spoken or written text can bring about in human interactions.

performative utterance

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The notion of performative utterances was introduced by J. L. Austin. According to his original conception, it is a sentence which is not true or false but instead 'happy' or 'unhappy', and which is ...