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.

Evidence (3)

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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