The contrast in denial behavior cannot be explained merely by the claim that emotional states cannot be denied, since one can accuse someone of pretending after expressive acts but not of lying or saying something false.
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In search of an exclamatory illocutionary force — Discourse behavior: denials, question-addressing, and embedding
you can accuse one of pretending in response to expressive speech acts
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2007#unit-3-p3
In search of an exclamatory illocutionary force — Discourse behavior: denials, question-addressing, and embedding
you can accuse one of pretending in response to expressive speech acts
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2007#unit-3-p3
In search of an exclamatory illocutionary force — Discourse behavior: denials, question-addressing, and embedding
you can accuse one of pretending in response to expressive speech acts
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2007#unit-3-p3
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