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On this alternative, wh-exclamatives and declarative exclamations assert the speaker's emotion toward the believed extreme-degree proposition, rather than merely contributing non-at-issue expressive content or factive presupposition.
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On this alternative, wh-exclamatives and declarative exclamations assert the speaker's emotion toward the believed extreme-degree proposition, rather than merely contributing non-at-issue expressive content or factive presupposition.
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- Prior speech-act approaches distinguish canonical clause types and represent their distinct illocutionary forces with operators such as ASSERT and ?.Evidence for this premise (3)Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion — Framing the dispute: from illocutionary force to emotive assertiondesignated speech act operators such as ‘ ASSERT ’ and ‘ ? ’https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2022#unit-1-p1Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion — Framing the dispute: from illocutionary force to emotive assertiondesignated speech act operators such as ‘ ASSERT ’ and ‘ ? ’https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2022#unit-1-p1Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion — Framing the dispute: from illocutionary force to emotive assertiondesignated speech act operators such as ‘ ASSERT ’ and ‘ ? ’https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2022#unit-1-p1
- Assertions conventionally involve speaker commitment to the truth of the proposition asserted: cooperatively, a speaker asserts what they believe or know through evidence to be true.Evidence for this premise (3)Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion — Framing the dispute: from illocutionary force to emotive assertionone asserts cooperatively (i.e., without intent to deceive) what one believes or knows through evidence to be true.https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2022#unit-1-p6Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion — Framing the dispute: from illocutionary force to emotive assertionone asserts cooperatively (i.e., without intent to deceive) what one believes or knows through evidence to be true.https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2022#unit-1-p6Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion — Framing the dispute: from illocutionary force to emotive assertionone asserts cooperatively (i.e., without intent to deceive) what one believes or knows through evidence to be true.https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2022#unit-1-p6
- Rett's articulated version of the IFH defines exclamation as a speech act with a unique illocutionary force and uses an independent-speech-act characterization to capture the relation among exclamatory forms and expressive meaning.Evidence for this premise (3)Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion — Framing the dispute: from illocutionary force to emotive assertiona speech act with a unique illocutionary forcehttps://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2022#unit-1-p5Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion — Framing the dispute: from illocutionary force to emotive assertiona speech act with a unique illocutionary forcehttps://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2022#unit-1-p5Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion — Framing the dispute: from illocutionary force to emotive assertiona speech act with a unique illocutionary forcehttps://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2022#unit-1-p5
- Although some accounts are skeptical that exclamatives have a dedicated sentential force, almost all existing approaches endorse the illocutionary force hypothesis that exclamation is a speech act.Evidence for this premise (3)Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion — Framing the dispute: from illocutionary force to emotive assertionthe illocutionary force hypothesis (IFH) that there is something like the exclamation speech act is shared by almost all of the existing approaches.https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2022#unit-1-p4Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion — Framing the dispute: from illocutionary force to emotive assertionthe illocutionary force hypothesis (IFH) that there is something like the exclamation speech act is shared by almost all of the existing approaches.https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2022#unit-1-p4Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion — Framing the dispute: from illocutionary force to emotive assertionthe illocutionary force hypothesis (IFH) that there is something like the exclamation speech act is shared by almost all of the existing approaches.https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2022#unit-1-p4
- The distinction between sentential force and illocutionary force shows that a sentence's conventional form-associated force need not equal the force inferred from speaker intention.Evidence for this premise (3)Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion — Framing the dispute: from illocutionary force to emotive assertionthe illocutionary force in many cases is not equivalent to the sentential force.https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2022#unit-1-p3Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion — Framing the dispute: from illocutionary force to emotive assertionthe illocutionary force in many cases is not equivalent to the sentential force.https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2022#unit-1-p3Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion — Framing the dispute: from illocutionary force to emotive assertionthe illocutionary force in many cases is not equivalent to the sentential force.https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2022#unit-1-p3
- Exclamatory use spans varied forms, including interjections, declaratives, interrogatives, and wh-exclamatives; declaratives and interrogatives can be used with an intention paralleling that of wh-exclamatives.Evidence for this premise (3)Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion — Framing the dispute: from illocutionary force to emotive assertionboth declaratives (2a) and interrogatives (2b) can be used with a speaker ’ s intention that parallels the one in exclamativeshttps://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2022#unit-1-p2Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion — Framing the dispute: from illocutionary force to emotive assertionboth declaratives (2a) and interrogatives (2b) can be used with a speaker ’ s intention that parallels the one in exclamativeshttps://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2022#unit-1-p2Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion — Framing the dispute: from illocutionary force to emotive assertionboth declaratives (2a) and interrogatives (2b) can be used with a speaker ’ s intention that parallels the one in exclamativeshttps://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2024-2022#unit-1-p2
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