1 What the utterer commits himself to is all encoded in the language-system.

2 Such mistakes may say something about the utterer (or may not), but they almost certainly tell us nothing about the candidate.

3 In other words, only an omniscient analyst can judge the degrees of cost and pay-off to both utterer and receiver.

4 However, the reckless, well-bred show of bravado did not exactly endear the utterer to two other boys of like age.

5 It points out that the main cause of pragmatic failure is that in the course of communication either the utterer or the interpreter fails to adapt language to communicative context.