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  2. Felicity (pragmatics) - Wikipedia

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    Propositional content condition: the requested act is a future act of the hearer; Preparatory precondition: 1) the speaker believes the hearer can perform the requested act; 2) it is not obvious that the hearer would perform the requested act without being asked; Sincerity condition: the speaker genuinely wants the hearer to perform the ...

  3. Locutionary act - Wikipedia

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    As an utterance, a locutionary act is considered a performative, in which both the audience and the speaker must trust certain conditions about the speech act. These conditions are called felicity conditions and are divided into three different categories: the essential condition, the sincerity condition, and the preparatory condition.

  4. Speech act - Wikipedia

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    Brisset argues that models perform actions in different fields (scientific, academic, practical, and political). This multiplicity of fields induces a variety of felicity conditions and types of performed actions. This perspective is a criticism of the essentialism of philosophical modelling studies. [42]

  5. Performative utterance - Wikipedia

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    According to Austin, in order to successfully perform an illocutionary act, certain conditions have to be met (e.g. a person who pronounces a marriage must be authorized to do so). [1]: 8 Besides the context, the performative utterance itself is unambiguous as well. The words of an illocutionary act have to be expressed in earnest; if not ...

  6. Felicity conditions - Wikipedia

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    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Redirect page. Redirect to: Felicity (pragmatics)

  7. List of supercouples - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of supercouples, fictional couples who have been titled supercouples by the media, usually with the addition of substantial fan support; they may have been referred to as power couples or dynamic duos, and are often defined by a standard set of criteria or circumstances; these circumstances include mania (significant press and media attention being placed on the couple, having ...

  8. Rear of the Year - Wikipedia

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    Rear of the Year was a British award for celebrities who were considered to have attractive buttocks.It was created by publicity consultant Anthony Edwards [1] in 1976. . Initially, it was awarded only to women, but in 1986 the first award was made to a man [2] and from 1997, it was awarded annually to one woman and o

  9. Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness - Wikipedia

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    In consequence of which mutual connection of justice and human felicity, he has not perplexed the law of nature with a multitude of abstracted rules and precepts, referring merely to the fitness or unfitness of things, as some have vainly surmised; but has graciously reduced the rule of obedience to this one paternal precept, “that man should ...