On the interpretation of expressive adjectives: pragmatics or syntax?
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The syntax and pragmatics of exclamations and other expressive/emotional utterances,
In the linguistic literature we find discussions and descriptions of linguistic phenomena such as EXPRESSIVE UTTERANCES, EXCLAMATORY UTTERANCES, EXPRESSIVE SENTENCES, EXCLAMATIONS, EXCLAMATIVES, and EXPRESSIVE SPEECH ACTS. Linguists have thus observed that there are emotionally triggered utterances in the languages of the world, but there seems to be no consensus regarding which terminology to ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics
سال: 2021
ISSN: 2397-1835
DOI: 10.5334/gjgl.1214