“There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times.” ImportantFactsThreeKnowledgeFiguresSpeechWittyFourthReportersEstatesParliamentGalleryLiteralFigures Of SpeechWitty Sayings Author:Edmund Burke
“In the performance of an illocutionary act in the literal utterance of a sentence, the speaker intends to produce a certain effect by means of getting the hearer to recognize his intention to produce that effect; and furthermore, if he is using the words literally, he intends this recognition to be achieved in virtue of the fact that the rules for using the expressions he utters associate the expression with the production of that effect.” IfsMeanFactsCertainVirtueEffectsProduceExpressionPerformancesIntentionProductionsSentencesRecognitionSpeakersAssociatesLiteralUtterance Author:John Searle