Searle and Vanderveken classify exclaim together with announce and interject, and say that these verbs do not restrict an utterance's illocutionary point.

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The landscape of exclamations: brief musings on emotive language — Exclaiming as pervasive modification rather than a distinct force or clause type

The same holds for the verbs “ interject ” , “ interpose ” , and “ exclaim ” .

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2008#unit-2-p2

The landscape of exclamations: brief musings on emotive language — Exclaiming as pervasive modification rather than a distinct force or clause type

The same holds for the verbs “ interject ” , “ interpose ” , and “ exclaim ” .

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2008#unit-2-p2

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