Felicity Conditions

[hikmetselim]

What is ''Felicity Conditions'' ?

How would you make it simpler and as much as vivid with plenty of examples ?

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Exercise

# Pat and Chris are having an argument in a restaurant, ad Pat throws a glass of water on

Chris's shirt. Chris responds with Thanks a lot. What felicity conditions on thanking does

Chris's utterance violate?


a. The act for which one is thanked must be in the hearer's best interest.

b. The act for which one is thanked must be a past act.

c. The act for which one is thanked must be witnessed by the speaker.

d. The act for which one is thanked must be in the speaker's best interest.

e. Both (b) and (d)

I am not a linguist by any stretch of the imagination, but I think Felicity Conditions are all part of the Speech act Theory.

Chris's response is one of sarcasm........how does this fact effect the choice of options?

I cannot see that the act for which one is thanked can be in anyones best interest ( unless it is interpreted as a warning which is unlikely), so I feel the only one that fits is B)The act for which one is thanked must be a past act.

These are only my personal thoughts on the matter, don't take them as being definitive.

[hikmetselim]

güncel. . . .

[Teacher_Tuğba]

Cognitive exploration of language ... - Google Kitaplar


http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data...0/3f/3b/c9.pdf


http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data...0/3b/1f/c6.pdf

I have found some information about ''Felicity Conditions''. But I still can't solve your question. If I have to answer, I'll say ''a'. We will learn this subject 2 weeks later,then I hope I will help you....

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In terms of the "Speech Act" theory that was first formulated by J.L.Austin back in the 1950's, what they call "performative utterances" (i.e., declarations, requests, and warnings) cannot be viewed as "true" or "false" statements; but they can only be classified as "felicitous" or "infelicitous" according to a set of conditions first discussed and suggested by Austin himself.

To me, the approach is sound enough, as indeed a "performative utterance" may be "infeliticious" without being false or saying something false. I mean, it may be irrelevant, baffling, rude, or coarse. But, I must hasten to add, I do find the choice of the terms ""felicitous" and "infelicitous" quite infelicitious in itself.

Now, do not say that it made you unhappy that the judge pronounced the death sentence on you in an ill-mannered way; for then you would have to admit that you would be quite happy, and full of felicity, if he had announced it with all its due decorum.

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As for the specific question here, I leave the answer to philosophizers -- they may argue about it all day long and come up with no tangible result. In other words, I find the question quite infeliticious.
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cevap c olabilirmi?

[miss leek]

çok zor geldi bu konu bana ama context in en önemli unsur olduğunu kavrayınca biraz daha kolaylaştı gibi olsu sanırsam galiba bence cevap e şıkkı yani b ve d şıkları doğrudur.çünkü özür dilediğimiz olay geçmişte yaşanmış olmalı (yani B) ayrıca teşekkür ettiğimiz olay bizim best interst'imiz olmalı;yani üstümüze bilerek su döken birine hele de bu kavga esnasında oluyorsa teşekkür etmeyiz ve bu da Chris'in sözünü bozan bir diğer felicit condition'dır.umarım kafanı daha da karıştırmamışımdır