单词 | rhetic |
释义 | rheticadj. Philosophy and Linguistics. In J. L. Austin's theory of speech acts: designating a locutionary act (an utterance) as one having the semantic properties of sense and reference, rather than merely as one consisting in the production of sounds (a phonetic act) or of grammatically arranged words (a phatic act). Cf. rheme n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > meaning or signification > [adjective] > of utterance: that has property of meaning rhetic1953 1953 J. L. Austin MS Lect. Notes: Words & Deeds (Bodl. Eng. Misc. c. 395) f. 8 Phatic act..said ‘the cat is on the mat’..rhetic act..said (that) the cat was on the mat. 1969 W. Cerf in K. T. Fann Symposium on J. L. Austin iv. 356 The suspicion arises that the phonetic act, the phatic act and the rhetic act are not subclasses, but parts of the locutionary act. 1971 M. Furberg Saying & Meaning (ed. 2) ii. 57 Reports of someone's words in indirect speech are reports of his rhetic act. 2005 I. Rumfitt in F. Jackson & M. Smith Oxf. Handbk. Contemp. Philos. iv. xvi. 452 A satisfactory semantic theory for a language will associate each form of sentence construction with a small..number of rhetic acts that may be performed by uttering sentences of that form. Derivatives ˈrhetically adv. in terms of meaning; semantically. ΚΠ 1953 J. L. Austin MS Lect. Notes: Words & Deeds (Bodl. Eng. Misc. c. 395) f. 12 When diff[eren]t phemes are used with same sense & ref[ere]nce, we might speak of rhetically equivalent acts. 1997 B. Lee Talking Heads vi. 268 To promise is to utter some expression more or less equivalent in sense and reference (i.e., ‘rhetically’ identical) to the performative utterance of ‘I promise (you) that . . .’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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