LINGUIST 2E03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Performative Utterance
27 Oct 2017
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Austin argued that performative utterances are not true or false. Do they constitute a successful warning, bet, ship- naming etc. A performative that works is called felicitous and one that does not is called infelicitous: felicitous happy, and infelicitous unhappy. The particular persons and circumstances must be appropriate for the invocation of the particular procedure : there is a script, and if followed it"ll be successful. Martin luther and pope leo x january 3, 1521. The sincerity conditions for a promise: right intentions: not to break the promise, should feel in heart that you have to keep it. When something is promised and not delivered: we question why someone has done it, we start thinking that the person had never followed through we do something for you, breaking a promise they don"t. An empty promise, most politicians know the economic situation is.
