Example sentences for: constative

How can you use “constative” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • To return to Austin's distinction between constative and performative utterances: Austin eventually concluded correctly that there are no purely constative utterances.

  • This seems like a simple statement, what the linguistic philosopher J. L. Austin termed a constative utterance: a base level of communication, with no metaphor or secondary meanings attached.


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