constativeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈkɒnstətɪv/, /kənˈsteɪtɪv/
• 韻: -ɒnstətɪv, -eɪtɪv

形容詞

constative (not comparable)

1. (linguistics) Pertaining to an utterance relaying information and likely to be regarded as true or false.

   Statements are constative utterances.

   • 1962, J. L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words (OUP paperback edition, page 72)

     One thing, however, that it will be more dangerous to do, and that we are very prone to do, is to take it that we somehow know that the primary or primitive use of sentences must be, because it ought to be, statemental or constative, in the philosophers' preferred sense of simply uttering something whose sole pretension is to be true or false and which is not liable to criticism in any other dimension.

派生語

関連する語

• performative

名詞

constative (plural constatives)

1. (linguistics) An utterance relaying information and likely to be regarded as true or false.
   • 2011, Phyllis Kaburise, Speech Act Theory and Communication: A Univen Study, page 77:

     The distinction between constatives and performatives is one of the distinctions that he starts questioning.