Felicity Conditions - Pragmatics - ELLO

Performing speech acts successfully · Propositional content condition. requires the participants to understand language, not to act like actors or to lie ... Glossary KeyThinkers AllExercices AllPodcasts LinguisticFAQs AllLinks CompleteReadingList LogIn GeneralLinguistics Theory,Model,Method PhoneticsandPhonology Morphology Syntax Semantics Pragmatics FocusandContent Definition BasicNotions DeixisandDistance ReferenceandInference CooperationandImplicature SpeechActsandEvents IllocutionaryForce FelicityConditions Perform.Hypothesis TypesofSpeechActs Direct&IndirectSpeechActs SpeechEvents PolitenessandInteraction Exercises ToolsandExtras SelectedSubfields HistoryofEnglish SyntacticTheory CognitiveApproaches LanguageandMedia Sociolinguistics TheoriesandMethodsinLinguistics Pragmatics»FocusandContent»SpeechActsandEvents»FelicityConditions Pragmatics FelicityConditions Haveyoueveraskedyourself,whythewords"Inowpronounceyouhusbandandwife"donotcreatealegalmarriagebetweentwopeoplewhenutteredinthecontextofafilmset?Thinkaboutthismatterbeforeyoureadon. Sourceofthepicture:medicanti.de Performingspeechactssuccessfully Asentencecanbeunsuccessfulwhenwemispronounceitorproduceanungrammaticalsentence.Butevenaperfectlywell-formedsentencecangowronginthesensethatitissituationallyinappropriate.Inordertobesuccessful,aspeechactneedstobeperformedalongcertaintypesofconditions.TheseconditionswerecategorizedbythelinguistJohnSearle,whointroducedthetermappropriatenessconditionsrespectivelyfelicityconditions: Propositionalcontentcondition requirestheparticipantstounderstandlanguage,nottoactlikeactorsortoliepermanently,e.g.apromiseorwarningmustbeaboutthefuture. Preparatorycondition requiresthatthespeechactisembeddedinacontextthatisconventionallyrecognized,thus,justbyutteringapromise,theeventwillnothappenbyitself. Sinceritycondition requiresthatthespeakerissincereinutteringthedeclaration,e.g.apromiseisonlyeffectivewhenthespeakerreallyintendstocarryitout. Essentialcondition requiresthatinvolvedpartiesallintendtheresult,e.g.apromisechangesstateofspeakerfromobligationtonon-obligation. Exercise:ThreateningFelicityConditions Exercise:FelicityConditionsinBetting Glossary