How things go wrong
lAustin proposes “looking at and classifying types of case in which something goes wrong and the act – marrying, betting, bequeathing, christening, or what not – is therefore at least to some extent a failure: the utterance is then, we may say, unhappy.”
lThese infelicities include: misinvocations, misapplications, misexecutions, flaws, hitches, abuses, insincerities…
l“Unserious” cases: a subcategory of “insincerities”?