LessonsStates of Assertoric Predication: Purposes of Reports and Three Audience StatesQuiz

فالجملة الخبرية كثيرا ما تورد لأغراض أخر غير إفادة الحكم أو لازمه
Informing is a familiar aim of a reporter, yet declarative sentences are frequently used for further purposes.

Distinguish a sentence’s declarative form from the speaker’s communicative intention. The same grammatical kind of sentence may convey a fact, grief, regret, or another emotional or rhetorical purpose.

Rhetorical interpretation therefore asks not only what is said but also why it is said here. Treating every declarative merely as delivery of new information would obscure the function of many utterances.

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A report can serve more than information

States of Assertoric Predication: Purposes of Reports and Three Audience States

فالجملة الخبرية كثيرا ما تورد لأغراض أخر غير إفادة الحكم أو لازمه
Informing is a familiar aim of a reporter, yet declarative sentences are frequently used for further purposes.

Distinguish a sentence’s declarative form from the speaker’s communicative intention. The same grammatical kind of sentence may convey a fact, grief, regret, or another emotional or rhetorical purpose.

Rhetorical interpretation therefore asks not only what is said but also why it is said here. Treating every declarative merely as delivery of new information would obscure the function of many utterances.