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Felicity Conditions of Speech Acts

2023
In 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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Socio-Cultural Factors For Felicity Conditions In The Speech Genre Of Persuasion

The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences, 2018
The 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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Handling Felicity Conditions with a Reversible Architecture

1994
This 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

2007
The 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

2003
The 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

1993
In 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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Discourse particles, common ground, and felicity conditions

2013
The goal of this paper is to argue for a novel approach to the semantics of discourse particles. It presents a research programme, which aims at deriving a very specific unified semantic analysis of these particles that nevertheless manages to capture a wide range of uses of the particles.
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Setting Felicity Conditions and Deriving Logical Semantic Rules for the Commissive Speech Acts

Qalaai Zanist Scientific Journal, 2018
Speech act can be defined as a verbal action that takes  place in the reality. This means by uttering a speech act, the speaker "does" something with his word. The speaker performs an activity that brings about a change in the world of reality.  As for the felicity conditions, they have been defined as the criteria that must be fulfilled if the speech ...
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Felicity conditions in a scene from T.M. Mofokeng's Sekhona sa Jwala

South African Journal of African Languages, 1986
The aim of the article is to explain how, in a crucial dialogue from the play, the intended goal of the communication between Phephei (the illocutor) and Morongoe (operating mainly in perlocutory capacity) is achieved. Using the speech-act theory, it is shown how various felicity conditions are met, conditions which facilitate meaningful communication,
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Great Dead Sociologists and Felicity's Condition: Fundamental Ideas in the One and Only Sociology Course

Teaching Sociology, 1985
T eachers who almost exclusively face students taking introductory sociology as a cynical credentialing exercise or a whimsical elective must think about whether the course should be taught at all. Is there anything in sociology that contributes enough to the students' education to justify it as an all-purpose course? If so, teachers must decide how to
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