Statement
Definition:
Here are two senses for statement:
- A statement is an illocutionary act that has the assertive illocutionary point of saying that some state of affairs is true.
- 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).
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This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library. Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.