Deconstructing Exclamations

Deconstructing Exclamations

While it is still not widely accepted that exclamatives are a clause type, exclamations are intuitively considered a speech act comparable to assertions and questions. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the notion of exclamation. In particular, I compare the pragmatic properties of whexclamativ...

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Autor principal: Elena Castroviejo Miró
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Publicado: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2008
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exclamations
exclamative sentences
speech acts
Common Ground
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:d36479c429504bc08fe552c8f65c7e712021-11-27T10:47:43ZDeconstructing Exclamations10.5565/rev/catjl.1321695-68852014-9719https://doaj.org/article/d36479c429504bc08fe552c8f65c7e712008-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/132https://doaj.org/toc/1695-6885https://doaj.org/toc/2014-9719While it is still not widely accepted that exclamatives are a clause type, exclamations are intuitively considered a speech act comparable to assertions and questions. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the notion of exclamation. In particular, I compare the pragmatic properties of whexclamatives with the discourse distribution of other so-called exclamations and argue that they do not have a uniform way to update the Common Ground; by using a series of tests, I show that the sole thing they have in common is an emphatic intonation and a non-neutral attitude on the part of the speaker.Elena Castroviejo MiróUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelonaarticleexclamationsexclamative sentencesspeech actsCommon GroundPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091CAENCatalan Journal of Linguistics, Vol 7, Iss 1 (2008)
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language CA
EN
topic exclamations
exclamative sentences
speech acts
Common Ground
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
spellingShingle exclamations
exclamative sentences
speech acts
Common Ground
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
Elena Castroviejo Miró
Deconstructing Exclamations
description While it is still not widely accepted that exclamatives are a clause type, exclamations are intuitively considered a speech act comparable to assertions and questions. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the notion of exclamation. In particular, I compare the pragmatic properties of whexclamatives with the discourse distribution of other so-called exclamations and argue that they do not have a uniform way to update the Common Ground; by using a series of tests, I show that the sole thing they have in common is an emphatic intonation and a non-neutral attitude on the part of the speaker.
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