The Semantics of Emotive Markers and Other Illocutionary Content

Abstract I identify a class of expressions called ‘emotive markers,’ exemplified by fortunately and alas, which encode not-at-issue information about the speaker’s emotive attitude towards content utterances they occur in. argue that there are important differences markers other encoders content, in particular utterance modifiers like frankly or evidential adverbs apparently. In contrast to these, can result Moore’s Paradox always range over their local argument. conclude contribution should be treated as ‘illocutionary content’, on par with Discourse Commitments (Gunlogson, 2001), model this analysis dynamic sub-sentential update framework Farkas & Bruce (2010).