On the standard view, an exclamative's affect-related component is non-truth-conditional and its truth-conditional content is presupposed; therefore neither has the discourse behavior of ordinary at-issue asserted content.

Evidence (3)

In search of an exclamatory illocutionary force — Discourse behavior: denials, question-addressing, and embedding

the expressive part itself is non-truth-conditional

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2007#unit-3-p1

In search of an exclamatory illocutionary force — Discourse behavior: denials, question-addressing, and embedding

the expressive part itself is non-truth-conditional

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2007#unit-3-p1

In search of an exclamatory illocutionary force — Discourse behavior: denials, question-addressing, and embedding

the expressive part itself is non-truth-conditional

https://doi.org/10.1515/tl-2025-2007#unit-3-p1

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