Substantiv
An invalid invocation.
Gebrauch- zählbar
- nicht zählbar
- Beispiele
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If the circumstances are not in order, the uttering of a performative is a “misinvocation" and the act is disallowed.
Weitere Beispiele (2)
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).