In Austin’s own words, an exercitive speech act “is an assertion of influence or exercising of power” (Austin 1962: 163). Verbal enactings of law are paradigm examples of exercitive speech acts. Such utterances enact facts about what is legally permissible. When a college president ...
In the past, concern about a man-made warming of the earth has concentrated on the Arctic because the Antarctic is much colder and has a much thicker ice sheet.But the weather experts are now paying more attention to West Antarctic, which may be affected by only a few degrees of warming,...
Because death is just so full and man so small. Well I’m scared of what’s behind and what’s before. And there will come a time, you’ll see, with no more tears. And love will not break your heart, but dismiss your fears. ...
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a heterogeneous malignancy as a result of complex genetic and epigenetic alterations. HCC is characterized by a clear gender disparity for which there is lack of a clear mechanistic understanding. Androgen receptor (AR)
The former starts with real examples, and through a study of the examples comes to the grammar rule that is suggested in the examples. The latter starts with the presentation of the grammar rules first and then processes to the study of illustrative examples. 30.Receptive words refer to those...
In the Hebrew Bible, there are some 45 two-fold command formulae53 and 15 three-fold examples54, which in the LXX are most simply translated by a string of aorist imperatives, as for instance, in Gen 21:18 ἀνάστηθι, λαβὲ …καὶ κράτησον55. 2.2. ...