Meaning of misinvocation | Babel Free

Definitions

An invalid invocation.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“If the circumstances are not in order, the uttering of a performative is a “misinvocation" and the act is disallowed.”

“To rationalize their self-validating procedure, they even misinvoke Thomas Kuhn's notion of "normal science,” apparently unaware that a like misinvocation could even legitimate exorcism and other forms of sheer quackery.”

“To use an example from Austin, when one promises a donkey to give it a carrot with no intention of doing so, two sorts of infelicities are in play: an insincerity and a misinvocation (23).”

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