This act we may call a rhetic act, and the utterance which it is the act of uttering a rheme. - "How To Do Things With Words" (1962) by J.L. Austin (OUP paperback edition, 93)
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This act we may call a rhetic act, and the utterance which it is the act of uttering a rheme. - "How To Do Things With Words" (1962) by J.L. Austin (OUP paperback edition, 93)
Source: wiktionary
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