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  • According to Austin, the primary function of his theoretically grounded six rules is

    To enable communication by means of speech acts
  • According to Austin, performatives (speech act) are best judged according to whether they are felicitous or not

    True
  • According to Austin, we can use his six theoretically grounded rules in order to uncover many of those unconscious constraints of the type Freud and Butler speak of

    False
  • On Austin's view, speech that is representational (as opposed to constitutive) aims to re-present the world

    True
  • Austin argues that it is okay to violate any of the six rules, though violation of any of the six will likely lead to the speech act being happy-but-wounded

    False
  • An agency-based view of language stresses

    The importance of language over speech
  • Austin posits his six rules as

    Conditions of happiness
  • According to Austin, the utterance "Yes, I do have the time"

    Constitutes the world
  • For Austin, if an attempted speech act violates the rule that the speaker's subsequent acts must be consistent with the original speech act, the act is rendered null and void (unhappy)

    False
  • Regarding the above, would Austin call your response to my request a happy speech act?

    True
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