Related Term(s):

• infelicitous

Source(s):

AUSTIN 197514f.
SEARLE 196954
FASOLD 1990149

• AUSTIN, J.L. (1975) How to Do Things With Words, 2nd Edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
• SEARLE, John R. (1969) Speech Acts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 
• FASOLD, Ralph. (1990) The Sociolinguistics of Language. Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell.

Domain:

Speech-Act Theory