Keelefilosoofia raamat
of type A, but defectively or, in Austin's official vocabulary, "infelicitously."
If the wedding did succeed, but the resulting marriage is only one of crass
convenience and the couple were lying their heads off when they spoke their
vows, the wedding was defective; it is a regulative rule of marriage that the
couple love each other and sincerely intend to remain married. Promising
is a closely related example: If I utter (1) insincerely, having no intention of
paying you your money, it is an infelicitous promise. For that matter, if I
shout (1) to you across a crowded room, and you cannot hear me, that is an
infelicity of a different sort.
There are borderline cases as between strongly constitutive and regulative
rules. What if I utter (4), but in a flauntedly unrepentant, jeering, sneering
tone? Is that a grievously infelicitous apology, or no apology at all?
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