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Esimerkit

• Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
• In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore;
• Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;
• But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door —
• Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door —
• Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
• The situation in the case of actions which are non-linguistic but similar to performative utterances in that they are the performance of a conventional action (here ritual or ceremonial) is rather like this: suppose I bow deeply before you; it might not be clear whether I am doing obeisance to you or, say, stooping to observe the flora or to ease my indigestion.