Indirect speech acts

Searle (1969) states that there are four conditions to make a felicitous utterance. The propositi...

Felicity's Condition'. Erving Goffman. University of Pennsylvania ... The short list of Austin-Se...

The general condition in Searle's for all speech acts, the speaker must not be pretending and the...

Felicity conditions are the conditions that must be in place and the criteria that must be satisf...

These assumptions are called felicity conditions and are often divided into three categories: ess...