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Fecility Sincerity Conditions

The document discusses felicity conditions for illocutionary acts, specifically focusing on ordering and apologizing. For an order to be felicitous, the speaker must hold a position of authority over the hearer, while a sincerity condition for apologizing requires the apologizer to believe their action was wrong. Failure to meet these conditions does not prevent the act from being carried out, but affects its sincerity or appropriateness.

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Fecility Sincerity Conditions

The document discusses felicity conditions for illocutionary acts, specifically focusing on ordering and apologizing. For an order to be felicitous, the speaker must hold a position of authority over the hearer, while a sincerity condition for apologizing requires the apologizer to believe their action was wrong. Failure to meet these conditions does not prevent the act from being carried out, but affects its sincerity or appropriateness.

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FELICITY The FELICITY CONDITIONS of an One of the felicity conditions for the illocutionary act of

CONDITIONS
illocutionary act are conditions ordering is that the speaker must be superior to, or in
that must be fulfilled in the authority over, the hearer. Thus, if a servant says to the
situation in which the act is carried Queen ‘Open the window’, there is a certain incongruity,
out if the act is to be said to be or anomalousness, or infelicity in the act (of ordering)
carried out properly, or felicitously. carried out, but if the Queen says ‘Open the window’ to
the servant, there is no infelicity.

SINCERITY A SINCERITY CONDITION on an A sincerity condition on apologizing is that the apologizer


CONDITION
illocutionary act is a condition that believes that the thing apologized for is wrong in some
must be fulfilled if the act is said to way. Thus, if John enters a room at a certain time,
be carried out SINCERELY, but believing that to do so is wrong in some way (e.g.
failure to meet such a condition impolite, tactless, sacrilegious) and he says ‘I’m sorry to
does not prevent the carrying out come in here at this moment’, then he has apologized,
of the act altogether. and apologized sincerely. But if he says the same thing in
the same circumstances, except that he does not believe
that what he has done is wrong in any way, then he has
still apologized, but insincerely.

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