Claim0fb79d6ae8d0b02949475dbc2f609e14fe0c7fb58f03403c49288705cf9518a7·Paper reconstruction — Maria Esipova (2025), In search of an exclamatory illocutionary force

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In a direct question about the speaker's feelings, an overt emotive assertion is substantially better than an exclamative or declarative exclamation, contrary to TG's prediction that they are equivalent.

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In search of an exclamatory illocutionary force — Discourse behavior: denials, question-addressing, and embedding
I still do get a pretty strong contrast between (16B) and (16B ′ )
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2007#unit-3-p6
In search of an exclamatory illocutionary force — Discourse behavior: denials, question-addressing, and embedding
I still do get a pretty strong contrast between (16B) and (16B ′ )
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2007#unit-3-p6
In search of an exclamatory illocutionary force — Discourse behavior: denials, question-addressing, and embedding
I still do get a pretty strong contrast between (16B) and (16B ′ )
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2007#unit-3-p6

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