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- adjective pragmatics Having the character of an exercitive act.
- noun pragmatics, hermeneutics A
speech act in which adecision is made regarding action; examples include orders and grants of permission.
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You exemplify a verdictive e.g. when as a judge you pronounce a verdict; an exercitive by appointing, voting or advising; a commissive by promising, undertaking or declaring that you will do something; a behabitive by apologizing, criticizing, cursing or congratulating; an expositive by acts appropriately prefixed by phrases like ˜I reply™, ˜I argue™, ˜I concede™ etc., of a general expository nature.
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