Written or spoken expression that expresses various issues
The concept that concerns us has a special importance in the plane of communication since it is a written or spoken expression, generally brief and that composes a pragmatic unit that can express an order, an idea, a piece of advice, a wish and even a truth. As a consequence, they can have a negative, exclamatory, wishful, imperative, doubtful or affirmative meaning. And of course each statement has the mission of referring something and will be manifested by a speaker who will use linked and ordered words in sentences
At the behest of the Pragmatics, which is that part of the Linguistics which deals with how context influences the interpretation of meaning, a statement is that minimal speech act generally composed of a sentence or some expression smaller than a sentence, which can express the content of a proposition, command, desire, among other alternatives. Then the statement will be subject to contextual factors, because the same speech act can be enunciated through different compositions, that is, different sentences can evoke the same enunciation; "Accompany your brother to school, please" / "Do you want to accompany your brother to school?".
Exclamations, sentences or any other linguistic expression are enunciated realizations, because they will be expressed through a linguistic form in a given linguistic context; and the same form can present different interpretations, adopting, in some cases an ironic sense, while in others, it can express a totally opposite meaning to what it literally expresses, then, according to these two uses, we will have different statements.
The limit or end of each statement will be decreed by the change in the discursive subjects, or in other words by the alternation in the speakers.
Every statement, whether it corresponds to a brief daily dialogue like the one we have with a friend or family member, a scientific investigation or a novel, will have a specific beginning and an end. At the beginning there will be the statements of the other interlocutor, after the end, the answer statements will appear, or failing that, the silences that have to do with giving rise to the understanding of the statement expressed by our interlocutor.
Set of words that exposes a problem or question
Another use of the term refers to the set of words with which a mathematical problem or any other question is exposed or proposed. The math test was complicated by the statement of one of the exercises that I really had a hard time understanding.
We must make the difference between statement and sentence, because they are not the same, although their terms are used interchangeably frequently. The statement is the gender and the sentence would be the spice since every sentence constitutes a sentence but there are sentences that are phrases and not sentences.
Their use is widespread in countless sciences and disciplines, for example, in mathematics they are very popular when it comes to describing problems that demand a resolution. The theorems are just presented in statements.
One of the most popular in this matter is that of Pythagoras whose statement sentence: in every right triangle, the square of the length of the hypotenuse will be equal to the sum of the squares of the legs.
It is also important that we mention that the more precise the statement, the easier it will be to interpret and understand, and to find the solution in question.
On the other hand, logic also uses statements or propositions, as they are also called, on a recurring basis. In this case then the statements are sentences that may be true or false. From them, one can arrive at logical reasoning, the main purpose of logic.
And also the statements serve us in life to expose, raise problems of any kind not only associated with a science as we have already seen.
