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Latest revision as of 03:37, 18 May 2009
Felicity condition is a convention regulating the appropriate use of performative utterances. The felicity conditions for the utterance in (i) say - among other things - that the speaker must have the authority to marry two people:
(i) I hereby declare you husband and wife
Link
Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics
References
- Austin, J.L. 1962. How to Do Things with Words, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
- Chierchia and McConnell-Ginet 1990. Meaning and grammar, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
