Journal of Foreign Languages, Cultures & Civilizations

A Cross-Cultural and Pragmatic Study of Felicity Conditions in the Same-Sex Marriage Discourse
Hashim Aliwy Mohammed Al-Husseini ; Ghayth K. Shaker Al-Shaibani

Abstract
This paper investigates whether there are Felicity Conditions (FCs) for the same-sex marriage as being a contemporary practice of marriage relations in some countries. As such, the researchers adopt Austin’s (1962) Felicity Conditions (FCs) to examine if conditions of satisfaction are applicable to the same-sex marriage in Christian and Islamic cultures. The researchers focus on analysing and discussing the social, religious, and linguistic conventional procedures of the speech acts of marriage, specifically in the same-sex marriage discourse. We find out that same-sex marriage in Christianity is totally different from the traditional marriage with regard to the social, religious, and linguistic conventions. Consequently, we concluded that same-sex marriage discourse has no FCs in contrast to the traditional marriage in Christianity as well as marriage in Islam which has not changed in form and opposite sex marriage.

Full Text: PDF     DOI: 10.15640/jflcc.v4n1a7