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felicity conditions: a standalone construct

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Pragmatics

the conditions that must hold for a performative utterance to come off, such as an accepted procedure, the right persons and circumstances, and sincere participants.

In pragmatics, felicity conditions refers to the conditions that must hold for a performative utterance to come off, such as an accepted procedure, the right persons and circumstances, and sincere participants. This meaning comes from Austin (1962) in How to do things with words.[1]

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References

Austin, J. L. (1962). How to do things with words. Oxford U.P. ISBN 9788070071335

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