Search Results: Infelicitous


Felicity (pragmatics)
Selasa, 2024-03-05 07:51:11

is felicitous if it is pragmatically well-formed. An utterance can be infelicitous because it is self-contradictory, trivial, irrelevant, or because it...

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AIPAC
Minggu, 2026-08-09 18:51:00

East 1776 to the Present (New York: W.W. Norton & Company) p. 536. "The infelicitous combination of Ford and Rabin produced the direst crisis in US-Israeli...

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Nosso Lar
Selasa, 2025-07-08 09:10:05

region where less-than-perfect souls face the consequences of their infelicitous actions while alive. After a while, he is able to perceive the presence...

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J. L. Austin
Minggu, 2026-07-26 23:40:30

in connection with a performative utterance it is—in Austin's words—infelicitous or unhappy, rather than false. The action that is performed when a "performative...

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Turkic peoples
Kamis, 2026-08-13 00:47:00

green-irised"; New Book of Tang also states that Kyrgyz regarded black hair as "infelicitous" and insisted that black-eyed individuals were descendants of Han general...

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Chirality (chemistry)
Selasa, 2026-08-11 17:36:30

2022, e102100295. (doi:10.1002/tcr.202100295) Eliel, E.L. (1997). "Infelicitous Stereochemical Nomenclatures". Chirality. 9 (56): 428–430. doi:10...

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French invasion of Egypt and Syria
Minggu, 2026-08-02 01:29:21

bewilderment, and outrage. He berated the French's poor Arabic grammar and the infelicitous style of their proclamations. Over the course of Napoleon's invasion...

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Maius
Selasa, 2025-12-09 14:01:03

ten months in the year. May had 31 days. The Romans considered May an infelicitous month. Although it began with one of the most notoriously licentious...

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Elm Point, Minnesota
Jumat, 2026-01-23 10:10:57

then south before turning east, making the wording of the proclamation infelicitous. The proclamation, however, states that the territory annexed includes...

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Hurford disjunction
Senin, 2024-05-20 15:03:31

octothorps in the above examples, Hurford disjunctions are typically infelicitous. Their infelicity has been argued to arise from them being redundant...

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Slovak language
Senin, 2026-07-13 01:38:56

ten veľký dnes otvára. ... And the following sentence is stylistically infelicitous: Obchod ten veľký muž dnes tam otvára. (Only possible in a poem or other...

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Shield of Heracles
Jumat, 2025-12-12 07:30:38

modern scholarship. Some similes may strike the careful listener as infelicitous, such as the contrast of glowering with fierce action in "fiercely he...

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The Hudsucker Proxy
Senin, 2026-08-03 08:14:11

at them. One film critic described the numerous influences: "From his infelicitous name to his physical clumsiness, Norville Barnes is a Preston Sturges...

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Dzungar Khanate
Senin, 2026-08-10 07:14:08

contemporary European sources as the Kingdom of the Eleuths, from an infelicitous transcription of the name "Oirats" by French missionaries.[dubious –...

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King John (play)
Senin, 2026-08-03 18:07:41

Troublesome Reign of King John (c. 1589), the "masterly construction" the infelicitous expression of which led Peter Alexander to argue that Shakespeare's was...

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Pragmatics
Rabu, 2026-08-12 17:49:14

though she has offered nothing approaching an apology, his assertion is infelicitous: because she has made neither expression of regret nor request for forgiveness...

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How to Do Things with Words
Senin, 2026-08-10 20:33:11

sincere). Where these conditions fail, the performative is unhappy or infelicitous rather than false. Austin contrasts performatives with constatives, utterances...

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Muhammad al-Jawad
Rabu, 2026-07-22 19:15:02

This marriage, however, was to be without issue and might have been infelicitous. His successor, Ali al-Hadi, was already born in 828 to Samana, a freed...

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Performance studies
Rabu, 2026-07-01 07:07:36

priest, a judge, or the scholar, for instance. Austin accounts for the infelicitous by noting that "there will always occur difficult or marginal cases where...

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Catharine Beecher
Kamis, 2026-07-30 01:43:14

book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link), an account of an infelicitous domestic affair in which some of her friends were involved — (1851)....

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Varaha Lakshmi Narasimha temple, Simhachalam
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 21:18:39

JSTOR 2942988. S2CID 163193998. The architecture is a curious but not infelicitous combination of Orissan and Dravidian styles ..... The Kalyāṇa Maṇḍapa...

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List of linguistic example sentences
Kamis, 2026-07-02 20:24:18

incremental and (at least partially) local syntactic parsing leads to infelicitous constructions and interpretations. Reduced relative clauses The horse...

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Counterfactual conditional
Senin, 2026-08-10 20:23:23

comes from Irene Heim's observation that Sobel Sequences are generally infelicitous (i.e. sound strange) in reverse. If Hannah had drunk coffee with gasoline...

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Performativity
Minggu, 2026-08-09 05:24:08

constative utterance might be: it can only be judged either "happy" or "infelicitous" depending upon whether the conditions required for its success have...

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Mispronunciation
Rabu, 2026-04-29 03:47:38

pronunciation too. Spelling pronunciation: Pronouncing a word according to its infelicitous or ambiguous spelling. Aphesis: The loss of the sound at the start of...

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Inferential mood
Minggu, 2026-03-15 03:33:10

nonconfirmatives can, in Austin's terms, be felicitous (neutral) or infelicitous. Felicitous nonconfirmatives are used for reports, inferences, etc.,...

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Nigger Blues
Senin, 2025-12-29 15:49:24

1913, a shortened version of the piece was published under the latter infelicitous title, containing only six stanzas, five of which are close variants...

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William Dean Howells
Kamis, 2026-08-13 08:19:58

has never in his long career written an insincere, a slovenly, or an infelicitous page." Howells's literary peers also commented on him in their private...

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Scope (formal semantics)
Sabtu, 2026-06-20 18:33:05

referents are unique. For instance, the definite description "the cat" is infelicitous in a context where there are multiple cats which the speaker could have...

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T-matrix method
Jumat, 2025-10-31 21:07:07

boundary condition method (EBCM); therefore, the term "T-matrix method" is infelicitous. Improvement of traditional T-matrix includes Invariant-imbedding T-matrix...

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Hermann of Wied
Kamis, 2026-06-04 00:23:06

the Erasmian agenda of reform, which recognized certain corrupt and infelicitous religious practices but proposed no serious doctrinal change. Over time...

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Robert F. Kennedy's speech on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
Selasa, 2026-04-28 01:40:03

it is unknown "whether he misquoted deliberately, fortuitously, or infelicitously". Klein, Joe. (2006). Politics Lost: How American Democracy Was Trivialized...

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Little Kingdoms: Three Novellas
Kamis, 2026-07-09 13:57:11

Barnum Museum (1990) that the present collection, with its themes of infelicitous love and the absorbing power of art, is most deeply connected. It is...

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Andreas Divus
Kamis, 2025-09-11 10:34:50

Greek was not strong enough to resist entirely the Latin of Divus, with infelicitous results. Divus was also used more directly by Ezra Pound in his long...

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Rajaa al-Sanea
Minggu, 2026-03-08 04:21:34

initial translation, resulting in a final version that was "inferior and infelicitous". Booth also wrote about this incident in a scholarly article titled...

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Marilyn Booth
Selasa, 2026-03-10 09:08:18

initial translation, resulting in a final version that was "inferior and infelicitous". Booth also wrote about this incident in a scholarly article titled...

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King of Wu
Selasa, 2026-05-26 20:36:03

but was annexed by the Yue state in 473 BC. The title was somewhat infelicitous for the early Kings of the Han dynasty, who were quite autonomous and...

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Measuring the Mind
Sabtu, 2025-09-27 01:28:40

century existed, the term 'true score' would be a serious contestant. The infelicitous use of the adjective 'true' invites the mistaken idea that the true score...

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Grammaticality
Selasa, 2026-06-23 06:39:46

Harmless young children sleep quietly. Sentence (1) is grammatical yet infelicitous, because the pragmatics of the verb 'sleep' cannot be expressed as an...

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Origins of the blues
Jumat, 2026-04-10 04:54:42

1913, a shortened version of the piece was published under the latter infelicitous title, containing only six stanzas, five of which are close variants...

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Constitution of the Netherlands
Kamis, 2026-01-29 18:52:21

§1; the redaction of the headings is generally seen as confusing and infelicitous on this point. Most articles in §2 are combined in coherent groups. The...

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Focus (linguistics)
Selasa, 2026-06-23 03:45:56

counts as new information. For example, the focus pattern in (3) would be infelicitous if the question was ‘Did you see a grey dog or a black dog?’. In (3)...

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Participatory art
Kamis, 2026-06-04 00:28:16

Paradigm Shift from Objects to Subjects" by Suzana Milevska (essay) 2006 "Infelicitous Participatory Acts on the Neoliberal Stage" by Suzana Milevska (essay)...

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János Lászai
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 18:21:40

Catherine at the Saint Catherine's Monastery. In Cairo, he preached to "infelicitous Hungarian Mamluks" (Hungarian-origin slaves, who were abducted during...

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Francisco Lopes Suasso
Minggu, 2026-06-21 19:01:02

"If thou art felicitous, I know thou wilt return them to me; art thou infelicitous, I agree to having lost them." However, this may be apocryphal. Suasso...

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Bare nouns
Kamis, 2026-01-15 10:31:44

of "Los esclavos" is found in (6). This makes eliding "Los" from (6) infelicitous, and the resulting sentence ungrammatical. This analysis excludes bare...

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RMT v Serco Ltd
Selasa, 2026-04-07 01:18:42

unlawful, simply because the term used to describe a particular process is infelicitous. In my judgment the description of the process undertaken would have...

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Minimizer
Minggu, 2026-04-05 06:52:05

word about his colleagues. (The # symbol marks the last sentence as infelicitous.) Minimizers are one linguistic element which may develop over time into...

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Distributed morphology
Senin, 2026-06-29 13:42:50

+prn] ←→ /aj/ [+1 +sing +prn] ←→ /mi/ The use of /mi/ does not seem infelicitous in a nominative context at first glance. If /mi/ acquired nominative...

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Gertrude and Alice
Selasa, 2025-05-27 05:11:04

cluttering the text with footnotes.' In addition, Souhami's sometimes infelicitous descriptive displays are illustrated early as she encapsulates Stein...

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No Cards
Kamis, 2025-12-11 16:25:38

with all her money. Annabella doesn't fancy marrying the much older and infelicitous Mr. Dee, despite his wealth. The young Mr. Churchmouse, on the other...

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Huallaga Quechua
Rabu, 2026-05-06 07:14:34

possessive suffix with a consonant that appears before a syllable boundary. Infelicitous syllables without -ni- insertion /hatun- + -:/ → *[hatun:] 'my big one'...

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Chiral analysis
Selasa, 2026-06-23 00:38:27

Issue-10-03-2016, Volume 29, Issue 10, Pages: 31–37 Eliel, Ernest L. (1997). "Infelicitous stereochemical nomenclature". Chirality. 9 (5–6): 428–430. doi:10...

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Chiral drugs
Selasa, 2026-06-23 00:38:31

Engineering News. 10: 2. Eliel, Ernest L. (1997). <428::aid-chir5>3.0.co;2-1 "Infelicitous stereochemical nomenclature". Chirality. 9 (5–6): 428–430. doi:10...

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Doctor of Social Science
Kamis, 2026-06-25 09:24:01

Tampere Provided by the University of Helsinki and at which, somewhat infelicitously, the terminal degree in Practical philosophy is awarded as a Doctor...

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Robert B. Silvers
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 18:22:44

argument, requesting additional evidence, removing pompous jargon and infelicitous phrases." His New York Times obituary noted: "Silvers brought to [the...

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Squiggle operator
Kamis, 2026-08-13 05:41:58

focus is instead placed on the word "stroopwafel" itself, the answer is infelicitous, as is indicated by the # sign. Q: Who likes stroopwafel? A: HELEN likes...

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St. Paul's Cathedral (Regina, Saskatchewan)
Minggu, 2026-05-17 06:41:56

liturgy and music (see Donald M. Kendrick); latterly its worship has been infelicitously described as "high church meets happy clappy." Significant redecoration...

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Egidius Monoszló
Jumat, 2026-06-12 01:09:13

with Gregory. The Bohemian sources described Egidius as "confused and infelicitous" during this act. Egidius swore loyalty to Ladislaus IV, thus received...

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Virginia State Board of Censors
Rabu, 2026-07-08 11:07:08

are colored people, has been severely disciplined on account of its infelicitous, not to say dangerous, treatment of the race question." The board's response...

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Admiralty of Amsterdam
Selasa, 2025-11-04 05:59:19

lamps, compasses and hourglasses". The First Anglo-Dutch War ended infelicitously for the Dutch, and this added to the city administration's readiness...

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A Counterfeit Presentment
Jumat, 2026-01-30 13:20:18

"when Bartlett is told the “tragic” story of a young lady who has come infelicitously to the hotel, a lady whom he is destined to wed, he exclaims, tellingly:...

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