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  2. Speech disfluency - Wikipedia

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    A speech disfluency, also spelled speech dysfluency, is any of various breaks, irregularities, or non-lexical vocables which occur within the flow of otherwise fluent speech. These include "false starts", i.e. words and sentences that are cut off mid-utterance; phrases that are restarted or repeated, and repeated syllables; "fillers", i.e ...

  3. Speech act - Wikipedia

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    The study of speech acts is prevalent in legal theory since laws themselves can be interpreted as speech acts. Laws issue out a command to their constituents, which can be realized as an action. When forming a legal contract, speech acts can be made when people are making or accepting an offer. [40]

  4. Glossary of rhetorical terms - Wikipedia

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    Rhetorical situation – a term made popular by Lloyd Bitzer; it describes the scenario that contains a speech act, including the considerations (purpose, audience, author/speaker, constraints to name a few) that play a role in how the act is produced and perceived by its audience; the counterargument regarding Bitzer's situation-rhetoric ...

  5. Coordinated management of meaning - Wikipedia

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    The act of formulating speech and reaching the initial coordination is where the conversation co-exists between the two parties. The "actions of each person affect and are mutually affected by those of the other person in a coevolving conversation.

  6. Performative utterance - Wikipedia

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    in order to command someone to leave the room then this utterance is part of the performance of a command; and the sentence, according to Austin, is neither true nor false; hence the sentence is a performative; – still, it is not an explicit performative, for it does not make explicit that the act the speaker is performing is a command.

  7. The pleasure principle: How a false start became the ... - AOL

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    The post The pleasure principle: How a false start became the foundation for love appeared first on TheGrio. ... would say, ‘Sometimes, you act like a man.’ I say, ‘No, I don’t think, I ...

  8. Fact check: Trump makes false and unsubstantiated claims in ...

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    Trump’s speech minutes prior, much of which appeared to be off the cuff, was filled with assertions about migrants that were unsubstantiated, misleading or plain false.

  9. Fact check: Trump made at least 10 false claims about ... - AOL

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    In 2019, about two years before she became vice president, she co-sponsored a bill from Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, called the Social Security Expansion Act, that would boost Social Security ...