Expressive interjections are not assertions, as illustrated by the infelicity of responses such as “Me too!” and “Yeah, it is obvious” to standalone Ouch! or Wow!.

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The landscape of exclamations: brief musings on emotive language — Interjections as super-linguistic verbal emojis rather than emotive assertions

We agree completely that expressive interjections are not assertions.

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2008#unit-4-p1

The landscape of exclamations: brief musings on emotive language — Interjections as super-linguistic verbal emojis rather than emotive assertions

We agree completely that expressive interjections are not assertions.

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2008#unit-4-p1

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