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American Journal of Sociology, 1983
In this paper an effort is made to review the relevance and limitations of a scattering of near-recent work in sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and conversational analysis with respect to a central issue in the sociological study of social interaction: the taken-for-granted and the inferences made therefrom.
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In this paper an effort is made to review the relevance and limitations of a scattering of near-recent work in sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and conversational analysis with respect to a central issue in the sociological study of social interaction: the taken-for-granted and the inferences made therefrom.
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Wyclif on the Felicity (Conditions) of Marriage
Vivarium, 2011AbstractRegarding marriage, John Wyclif defends the following position: strictly speaking, no words or any kind of sensory signs would be needed, since the consensus of the spouses together with God’s approbation would suffice for the accomplishment of marriage.
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Felicity Conditions of Speech Acts
2023In this paper, we argue that both convention and intention are necessary for the explanation of baptism as a speech act. In the first part, we introduce the theory of speech acts, discussing Austin’s account of illocution and felicity. We provide context for the characterization of speech acts and conditions for their successful performance.
Grčki, David, Lalić, Ema Luna
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On The Felicity Conditions of Disjunctive Sentences
2018Mandy Simons. On The Felicity Conditions of Disjunctive Sentences.
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Socio-Cultural Factors For Felicity Conditions In The Speech Genre Of Persuasion
The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences, 2018The article deals with the study of linguistic and extralinguistic factors of felicity conditions for persuasion in fictional dialogues. The material for the analysis is taken from the works of contemporary Russian novelists. The modelling of a pragmatic situation “invitation / request / advice – refusal – persuasion – refusal / agreement” is being ...
Y.V. Mamonova, E.N. Aznacheeva*
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International Review of Pragmatics, 2017
This paper reports on the first detailed experimental investigation of the perception of the felicity of evidential markers in context. We investigated the Japanese evidentials -rashii, -sooda, and -yooda in various discourse environments by manipulating two key variables: (a) whether there was any conjecture required, and (b) whether the information ...
Julie Matsubara +2 more
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This paper reports on the first detailed experimental investigation of the perception of the felicity of evidential markers in context. We investigated the Japanese evidentials -rashii, -sooda, and -yooda in various discourse environments by manipulating two key variables: (a) whether there was any conjecture required, and (b) whether the information ...
Julie Matsubara +2 more
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Handling Felicity Conditions with a Reversible Architecture
1994This paper proposes the representation for a reversible architecture to handle not only syntactic and semantic information, but also felicity conditions relating to pragmatic information in the argumentation system proposed by Konolige and Pollack. Existing architectures do not represent felicity conditions explicitly, and lack reasoning capability ...
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Appropriateness and felicity conditions: A theoretical issue
2007The present paper gives a speech-act-theoretic explanation of the concept of appropriateness. In the speech act theory proposed in the present paper, the mechanism of performing an illocutionary act is explained as the process whereby a linguistic form, which represents a linguistic convention, becomes a linguistic artefact by the speaker’s act of ...
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Felicity Conditions for the Circumstantial Ad Hominem: The Case of Bush v. Gore
2003The circumstantial ad hominem, unlike the abusive variety, attacks a particular person by showing that his or her argument is inconsistent with his or her prior positions or circumstances. The difference between valid and fallacious uses of this form of argument is illustrated through analysis of the U.S.
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Machine learning under felicity conditions: exploiting pedagogical behavior
1993In task instruction a knowledgeable and well-intentioned teacher will provide focusing information, highlight decision points, indicate structure, and so forth. Recognition of these communicative acts is critical for practical learning. This paper describes an extension to explanation-based learning that augments domain knowledge with knowledge of ...
John D. Lewis, Bruce A. MacDonald
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