Claima449b29833129ee966f6cbb6402ce3b3d9dda2f8b78645808c5965b2ee9f6590·Paper reconstruction — Maria Esipova (2025), In search of an exclamatory illocutionary force

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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.”

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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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