Expressive utterances such as “Ouch!”, “Damn!”, and “Wow!” are not intuitively true or false, unlike assertions such as “I am frustrated” or “I am surprised.”
Evidence (3)
In search of an exclamatory illocutionary force — Statement of the dispute and defense of a specific standard view
the utterances in (2a) cannot be intuitively thought about in terms of something that can be true or false while those in (2b) can.
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2007#unit-1-p6
In search of an exclamatory illocutionary force — Statement of the dispute and defense of a specific standard view
the utterances in (2a) cannot be intuitively thought about in terms of something that can be true or false while those in (2b) can.
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2007#unit-1-p6
In search of an exclamatory illocutionary force — Statement of the dispute and defense of a specific standard view
the utterances in (2a) cannot be intuitively thought about in terms of something that can be true or false while those in (2b) can.
https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2007#unit-1-p6
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