A written expression blog

J. L. Austin was a British linguist who developed the idea that there is a distinction between statements that describe and statements that command. The former are called constatives , which are words that describe something as true or false. The latter are performatives , which are sentences that denote an action. In other words, a constative “is” whereas a performative “does”. Performatives are sentences that inspire us to perform an action. For example, the word “Recycle” in a trash can, incite us to throw specific kinds of garbage there, not any garbage. However, words not only bring about actions, sometimes words are actions. This is what Austin called speech acts .  These acts include, but are not limited to: ordering, promising, apologizing, warning, sentencing, etc. Felicity conditions Just because a sentence is a performative, doesn’t mean that it has the power to incite action. Performatives depend on context and receptors, which are known as felicity conditions. ...

Here is my second entry for this blog. This time, it is a slide share presentation about the Toronto University's website "Advice on Academic Writing" Advice on academic writing de Daniel Rossy

Welcome to my first blog, entirely written in english! (actually it's the second one) Here, dear visitor, you will witness my entries for the written assigments of a certain subject that I am taking, so be prepeared for the most wild and exciting content! This will be a sort of portfolio, a collection of works. This is actually my second blog, but the first one (not related to this subject) only saw one initial entry, and then I lost it, somewhere. That is to say, I do not know what to actually write on a blog :P