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4 Just to save you looking: She was christened by Isabel Hoey, daughter of the
then Governor of North Carolina. I am told that Hoey did use the traditional
bottle of champagne, while a band played "Anchors Aweigh."
5 Linguists have often missed the fact that Austin used "infelicitous" as the
broadest possible umbrella term. They sometimes use the word as applying
to sentences, and neologistically mean something like "nonsyntactically and
nonsemantically but pragmatically defective [in a way that is supposed to be
fairly specific but is never specified]."
Chapter 13
1 Notice, by the way, that if you ask me a question and I then produce an utterance,
you automatically assume that my utterance is intended as an answer to your
question. Suppose you ask, "Why are you late for class?," and I say, "We had
spaghetti at our house last night." You would think: What? How does having
spaghetti impede getting to class on the following day