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investigation

investigation preiskovánje The noun investigation is content-wise a successful performative in the sense of J. L. Austin’s work How To Do Things With Words, where he deals with performatives as special utterances with no truth-value and main function to perform a certain action. The verb to investigate has a structure of a perlocutionary act by producing meaning and providing answers in fields of cross-examination [criminal justice, […]