Journal Article10.5565/rev/catjl.132
Deconstructing Exclamations *
Deconstructing Exclamations,E. Miró +1 more
TL;DR: Deconstructing exclamations reveals that they are not a clause type, but rather speech acts comparable to assertions and questions.
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Abstract: 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 wh - exclamatives 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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