Hypersentence

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An implicit sentence containing an explicit sentence.

    "The sentence “Hand me that” may be said to entail the hypersentence “I'm telling you to hand me that.”"

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"The sentence “Hand me that” may be said to entail the hypersentence “I'm telling you to hand me that.”"

Etymology

From hyper- + sentence.

Related phrases

speech act

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