holds that language originates from the uttering of instinctive sounds of pain, anger and joy.

“We'd like to try this on,” she'd say carefully, uttering her words and properly.

中国大学MOOC: holds that language originates from the uttering of instinctive sounds of pain, anger and joy.

“We'd like to try this on,” she'd say carefully, uttering her words and properly. A: adequately B: beneficially C: distinctively D: precisely

“We'd like to try this on,” she'd say carefully, uttering her words and properly. A: adequately B: beneficially C: precisely D: distinctively

A child acquires his/her mother tongue invariably through these phases: ______, one-word, two-word and multiword. A: no-word B: babbling C: talking D: uttering

46. The sentence "Boys are boys." is a tautology. It is uninformative by virtue of its semantic content. In uttering it the speaker flouts the first maxim of ___________ ____: the contribution to conversation is not sufficiently informative.

Doctors think that lying to their patients is______. A: a medical tradition B: to harm their own integrity C: to defend medicine D: uttering the truth for truth's sake

90. Sentence "War is war" is a tautology. It is uninformative by virtue of its semantic content. In uttering it the speaker flouts the first maxim of quantity: the contribution to conversation is not sufficiently informative.

The uttering of the sentences which do not describe things and can not say to be true or false is, or is a part of, the doing an action. They are said to be __________. A: constatives B: performatives C: locutionary act D: illocutionary act