Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to utterance or sound.
- Enouncing; giving utterance; serving as a means of enouncing: as, an enunciatory discourse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or containing, enunciation or utterance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
enunciation .
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Examples
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If, for a while, the ruse of desire is calculable for the uses of discipline soon the repetition of guilt, justification, pseudo-scientific theories, superstition, spurious authorities, and classifications can be seen as the desperate effort to “normalize” formally the disturbance of a discourse of splitting that violates the rational, enlightened claims of its enunciatory modality.
The Goldilocks principle ... Frank Wilson 2008
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…if, for a while, the ruse of desire is calculable for the uses of discipline soon the repetition of guilt, justification, pseudo-scientific theories, superstition, spurious authorities, and classifications can be seen as the desperate effort to “normalize” formally the disturbance of a discourse of splitting that violates the rational, enlightened claims of its enunciatory modality.
Is there anything other than Sarah Palin you'd like to talk about? Ann Althouse 2008
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Benveniste’s analysis of the I in its enunciatory mode jibes with Kant’s critical project, which attempts to lay out the conditions of possibility for the transcendental subject.
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