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felicity condition

SEMANTICS: convention regulating the appropriate use of performative utterances. The felicity conditions for the utterance in (i) say - among other things - that the speaker must have the authority to marry two people:

(i) I hereby declare you husband and wife

LIT. Austin, J.L. (1962)
Chierchia and McConnell-Ginet (1990)