Deconstructing Exclamations
Castroviejo, Elena (J.W. Goethe Universität-Frankfurt)

Date:	2008
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 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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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Exclamatives ; Implicatura convencional ; Nivells de significat ; Partícules ; Interjeccions ; Exclamations ; Exclamative sentences ; Speech acts ; Common Ground
Published in:	Catalan journal of linguistics, V. 7 (2008) p. 41-90, ISSN 2014-9719

Adreça original: https://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/v7-castroviejo-miro
Adreça alternativa: https://raco.cat/index.php/CatalanJournal/article/view/128410
DOI: 10.5565/rev/catjl.132

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