Constantive
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Constantive is an adjective meaning (linguistics) Indicating a state of affairs with no additional connotations; denotational.
Meaning
(linguistics) Indicating a state of affairs with no additional connotations; denotational.
More Meanings
- (mathematics) Composed of elements that are each expressible by a unary polynomial.
Example Sentences
When a sentence is heard, we are responsible for deciding if the sentence is performative, constantive, or both.
Austin describes this view of language as mere statement as constantive and argues that language has a function beyond the constantive.
There are different kinds of speech acts. The two that play the biggest part in the negotiation dance are constantive speech acts and performative speech acts.
Thermodynamic properties are additive quantities. Spectroscopic properties are constantive quantities. Wavefunctions, statistical mechanical partition functions, and probabilities are multiplicative quantities.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include notional, nonconnotative, unindicative, batonic, discontinuative, nondenotative.
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