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For wishes people have bless, wish 6.
For attitudes people have complain. The examples of Expressive are:
a. Thanks for your helping
b. Welcome in my home
3.2. The Felicity Condition
The felicity condition of an illocutionary acts are conditions that must be fulfilled in the situation in which the act is carried out if the act is to be said, to be
carried properly, or felicitously. Akmajian et. Al 1979 proposes some example for some illocutionary act as follows:
1. Ordering
The speaker must be superior or has an authority over the hearer. For example, a servant orders his princess to wash the plates, ”please wash the plates” it is
felicitous if the sentences uttered by the princess o his servant. 2.
accusing The deed or property attribute to be accused is wrong in some waay.
3. offering
The hearer must not already have the thing offered. 4.
requesting The speaker is tempting to get the hearer to do something
5. promising
the speaker must intend to carry out the thing promised
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the thing promised must be something the hearer wants to happen. 6.
apologizing
the speaker must be responsible for the thing apologized for.
The hearer must not want the thing apologized for to happen. 7.
greeting
the speaker and the hearer must not in the middle of a conversation.
The speaker feels some more respect or community with the hearer. 8.
naming
the thing or person named must not already have recognized name known to the speaker.
The speaker must be recognized by the community as having authority to
name. 9.
protesting
the speaker must disapprove with the state of affairs protested at.
The hearer must be held to be responsible for the state of affairs protested. 10.
enquiring
the speaker must believe that the hearer knows the answer for the question. Beside the examples of felicity condition above, Peccei 1999 also gives
examples of felicity condition for directive illocutionary act as illustrated below:
the speaker must be in a position to direct the hearer to perform the act.
The directed act must not be something which has already happened or would happen anyway.
The directed act must be something the hearer is willing or obligated to
carry out if asked.
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The directed act must be something which is needed by or desirable to the speaker.
The function of the felicity condition can help us to determine whether an illocutionary act classified into direct or indirect act. When an act does not fulfil the
felicity condition, it must has another meaning more than the direct intention of the speaker.
3.3. The Ways of Performing Illocutionary Act
