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In ‘Performative Utterances’, at the end of his discussion of different kinds of ‘unhappiness’ or ‘infelicity’, Austin mentions utterances issued in the course of acting in a play or making a joke or writing a poem, ‘in which case, of course,’ he says, the utterance ‘would not be seriously meant and we shall not be able to say that we seriously performed the act concerned’ (1979: 241).
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Friggieri, J. (2014). Etiolations. In: Garvey, B. (eds) J.L. Austin on Language. Philosophers in Depth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137329998_4
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