What is a statement?

Here are two senses for statement:

1. A statement is an illocutionary act that has the assertive illocutionary point of saying that some state of affairs is true.
2. A statement is a sentence having a form that is typically used to express such illocutionary acts (such as an English declarative sentence which has a subject followed by a verb).

• What is a tag statement?

• What is an illocutionary act?

Crystal 1985 286

Hartmann and Stork 1972 218

Context for this page:

• Concept module: statement
• In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): S
• In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
• In bookshelf: Linguistics

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