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Meaning of "constative" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF CONSTATIVE

kənˈsteɪtɪv


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CONSTATIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Constative is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CONSTATIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of constative in the English dictionary

The definition of constative in the dictionary is able to be true or false. Other definition of constative is indicating that an action has occurred.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CONSTATIVE

annotative · comitative · connotative · creative · crepitative · dissertative · gravitative · hebetative · hesitative · incogitative · innovative · integrative · irritative · native · necessitative · nonstative · resuscitative · stative · sustentative · voluntative

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CONSTATIVE

constable · constableship · constablewick · constabularies · constabulary · Constance · constancy · constant · constantan · Constantia · Constantine · Constantine I · Constantine II · Constantine VII · Constantine XI · Constantinople · constantly · constatation · constate · constellate

WORDS THAT END LIKE CONSTATIVE

active · administrative · alternative · collaborative · comparative · conservative · cooperative · cumulative · decorative · derivative · in the negative · informative · initiative · legislative · narrative · negative · operative · qualitative · quantitative · relative · representative

Synonyms and antonyms of constative in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «constative» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CONSTATIVE

Find out the translation of constative to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of constative from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «constative» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

constative
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

constatativo
570 millions of speakers
en

English

constative
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

constative
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

constative
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

констатив
278 millions of speakers
pt

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constativo
270 millions of speakers
bn

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constative
260 millions of speakers
fr

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constative
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Constative
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

konstativen
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

constative
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

constative
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Constative
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

constative
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

constative
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

संयोगजन्य
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

constative
70 millions of speakers
it

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constativo
65 millions of speakers
pl

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constative
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

констатив
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

constative
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

constative
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

constative
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

constative
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

constative
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of constative

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CONSTATIVE»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about constative

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CONSTATIVE»

Discover the use of constative in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to constative and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Unfolding Social Constructionism
Psychological statements do not describe, predict, and so on.5 They are not constative. Gergen is aware of the constraints on his appropriation of Austin. Importantly, Austin's constative-performative dichotomy is disclaimed on the grounds that: ...
Fiona J. Hibberd, 2006
2
Brümmer on Meaning and the Christian Faith: Collected ...
In other words, a constative is true if our possibilities for action are indeed as assured in the constative. But a constative is not some kind of representation or image of a state of affairs, nor, therefore, can it be an accurate or inaccurate ...
Vincent Brümmer, 2006
3
Meaning and Force: The Pragmatics of Performative Utterances
In this interpretation, both performative and constative uses will match the illocutionary potential of the sentence, and neither will have special status. This last point has an important consequence. If the performative and constative uses of ...
François Récanati, 1987
4
A grammar of the Greek New Testament in the light of ...
478 note) uses constative. But Moulton' also makes a distinction between " constative" and "punctiliar," using "punctiliar" for real point-action and "constative" for what is merely treated as point-action. That is a true distinction for the verb- root, ...
A. T. Robertson, 1919
5
From Utterances to Speech Acts
Now, on the speaker's side, successfully performing a constative speech act amounts to providing A with a tool to conclude that p (again, with respect to s). Presenting A with a piece of information that is either true or false is a good means of ...
Mikhail Kissine, 2013
6
The Pragmatic Perspective: Selected papers from the 1985 ...
Thus, the nonperformative occurrence of may in non-formal usage is fully compatible with the performative/constative analysis. 3. The explanatory power of the performative/constative analysis This section will demonstrate that the ...
Jef Verschueren, Marcella Bertuccelli Papi, 1987
7
For Derrida
Derrida goes on to relate this “decision of urgency and precipitation, acting in the night of non-knowledge and non-rule” (FLe, 26; FLf, 58), to the opposition between constative and performative utterances in standard speech act theory. Derrida ...
J. Miller, 2009
8
Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics
It is not a question "of an obscurity or of a difficulty of interpretation, of a problematic on the way to its (re)solution," because "this obscurity, this undecidability between, let's say, a performative and a constative structure, is required in order to ...
Bonnie Honig, 1993
9
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More: The Last ...
In this book, when analyzing speech acts such as slogans, party speeches, and addresses, and ritualized acts such as votes and meetings, we will speak of their coexisting constative and performative dimensions. From the perspective of this ...
Alexei Yurchak, 2013
10
Sonic Multiplicities: Hong Kong Pop and the Global ...
The constative dimension of speech refers to what is stated, to the actual contents , to its literal meaning. Statements like 'my name is Joe', 'it is cold' or 'I am a man' are constative statements; they can be either true or false. But language also ...
Yiu Fai Chow, Jeroen de Kloet, 2013

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CONSTATIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term constative is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Derrida's Performance
It is putting him in the margin of philosophy, and not seeing that the ideas of margin/center, serious/jester, constative/performative collide as a knowledge ... «Philosophy Now, Mar 15»
2
Gallipoli: Remembrance As Forgetting - John Bevan-Smith
Thus, 'the apparent constative (descriptive)' on which it relies 'is merely the signifier of the speech-act'—the historian's enunciative act of writing ... «Scoop.co.nz, Feb 15»
3
Contemporary Istanbul art fair 2013. Social Art and its dynamics
Intellectual production and its alignments and directions are the constative powers of artistic expression. The new democracy has to be inspired ... «Yareah Magazine, Nov 13»
4
Habermas's Linguistic Theory Applied to David Mamet's Films …
In regards to constative speech acts, “…the speaker refers to something in the objective world, and in such a way that he would like to represent a state of affairs” ... «Student Pulse, Oct 12»
REFERENCE
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