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.
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Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion — Framing the dispute: from illocutionary force to emotive assertion
the 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
Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion — Framing the dispute: from illocutionary force to emotive assertion
the 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
Exclamation, intensity, and emotive assertion — Framing the dispute: from illocutionary force to emotive assertion
the 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
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