The prosody of whexclamatives and whquestions in german. Exclamatives are used to introduce an exclamation of surprise, admiration, or a similar emotion. Inflected and uninflected welch in exclamatives and rhetorical questions. In this paper i explore the distribution of welch and welche in different types of speech acts. Exclamatives are expressive speech acts that typically are communicated in a context that. The syntax and pragmatics of exclamations and other expressive.
The place of exclamatives and miratives in grammar a functional discourse grammar view revista linguistica 8 1, 7698. First is addressed the distinction between institutional and noninstitutional speech acts. Exclamatives, degrees and speech acts ucla linguistics. The goal of this paper is a semantic and pragmatic account of exclamations.
Exclamatives, degrees and speech acts jessica rett december, 2011 abstract the goal of this paper is an account of the semantics and pragmatics of exclamation. These are also referred to as exclamative sentences or exclamatives. But now there is enough crosslinguistic evidence to shows that whexclamatives are of. The hypothesis of insubordination and three types of wh. Consequently, exclamatives too, according to my view, combine the two speech acts of assertion 20 and exclamation 21. The problem with this traditional view lies in the fact that it only accounts for voces in terms of their similarity to vocatives, and identifies only one type of voces with the. In the third section, i will present new data on the scope interactions holding in spanish degree exclamatives, which suggest that degree operators must. Nouwen and chernilovskaya 2015 is an intensi er of the gradable adjective cool see rett 2015, on degrees within exclamatives and that 2 wie how can. Prices in gbp apply to orders placed in great britain only. Then, directives, questions, expressives, and commissives are discussed in turn. This paper provides evidence for evans 2007 insubordination hypothesis w. And furthermore we will argue that 1 is not just pragmatically equivalent to 2.
Finally, chernilovskaya and nouwen to appear point out that this is not the case for dutch. We will argue that the noun phrase is not embedded in an elliptical structure. The difference in meaning between sentence exclamations and exclamatives has consequences for the type of. Pdf exclamatives, exclamations and speakers meaning. The semantics of nominal exclamatives semantic scholar. Exclamatives, degrees and speech acts springerlink. Mirativity across constructions and theories jessica rett, ucla.
Approaching the pragmatics of exclamations experimentally. Villalba 2003 considers the case of spanish hidden exclamatives see masullo, 1999, like. In this paper several aspects of the syntax and semantics of spanish root exclamatives are ana. For instance 4 repeated from 1, when uttered with emphasis. English easy learning grammar exclamatives exclamatives are used to introduce an exclamation of surprise, admiration. A formal semantics is given by making use of dynamic techniques and, in a sense, dynamically simulating the modification of certain speech acts. Exclamative as a universal speech act category a case study in. Exclamatives, degrees and speech acts researchgate. A degree account of exclamatives salt 18, march 21, 2008 jessica rett jessica. Investigation of exclamatives in english and japanese. We need to acknowledge that there are a variety of speech acts e. It establishes distinctions among three groups of whexclamatives. Male and female speakers show differences in their preferred accent patterns for the two speech acts.
In my account of these facts, i propose a characterization of illocutionary force of exclamation, a function from propositions to speech acts of exclamation. Pdf the derivation of vocative exclamatives with the. Whexclamatives and other noninterrogative questions. Pdf on sep 16, 2016, christoph unger and others published. Exclamative definition and meaning collins english. Exclamatives are expressive speech acts that typically are communicated in a. There exists an exclamative speech act with the following features or. Definition of exclamative from the collins english dictionary. I end with a comparison to some previous approaches and a tentative extension of parts of the analysis to other constructions. In my account of these facts, i propose a characterization of illocutionary force of exclamation, a function from propositions to speech acts of. Spanish root exclamatives at the syntaxsemantics interface. Degree modification in natural language by jessica rett a dissertation submitted to the graduate schoolnew brunswick rutgers, the state university of new jersey in partial ful. It investigates word order in matrix whexclamatives and their subordinate correlates and tests matrixsubordinate asymmetry the felicitousness of whwords in matrix and subordinate contexts.
Different types of speech acts are linked fairly directly with different linguistic forms. Research into vocative exclamatives voces is based on the traditional grammar of standard arabic sa which considers the structure of voces to be like that of vocatives due to the use of the vocative particle ya. Unlike epithet nouns and other binominals of french and romance more generally, we argue that this acadian french construction contains a complex dp with a. In order to improve the naturalness of humancomputer interaction, socioemotional components need to be integrated. Doctoral dissertation, university of maryland, college park. Pdf in this article, we examine the scope interactions of the extreme degree operator underlying exclamatives. It is common to label as exclamations both sentences of a. The difference in meaning between sentence exclamations and exclamatives has consequences for the type of violated expectation. Mirativity across constructions and theories m itshide.
The derivation of vocative exclamatives with the particle. Exploring the exclamative speech act from a discourse perspective. Moreover, i argue that whexclamatives make expressive speech acts insofar they are meaningful contributions thanks to evaluative intonation henceforth ei. The polarity item question particle oo in matrix clauses. Speech act theory austin 1962, searle 1979, geis 1995 has not helped to refine our understanding of the exclamative type, since expressive speech acts, with the exception of formalized locutions like apologies, are not readily analyzed with regard to preparatory, essential and sincerity conditions. Exclamations are a different kind of speech act with a correspondingly dif ferent illocutionary force.
No direct mapping between clausetypes and speech acts this is a wellknown general fact 2. Speech acts and conversation university of pennsylvania. The sentencefinal use can be viewed as strengthening the action performed by the sentence. They also recognise exclamations in which the emphatic degree items so and such. Exclamatives learning english grammar collins education. The goal of this paper is an account of the semantics and pragmatics of. What is the relationship between speech act type and linguistic form.
Exclamative sentence can begin with what or how for example. Some empirical and theoretical extensions of the analyses are proposed and some consequences discussed. They conclude from this fact that degrees are not universally present in. Pdf hosted at the radboud repository of the radboud. Exclamatives, degrees and speech acts semantics archive. Exclamations introduced by one of these words consist either of. Whexclamatives and other noninterrogative questions matrix whexclamatives henceforth es are clauses like 1 example 1b is in dutch be. Pdf hosted at the radboud repository of the radboud university nijmegen. Exclamatives are an a ective speech act, and it was considered a key property that their descriptive and expressive contents always involve a gradable notion.
No direct mapping between clausetype and logical form inversion exclamatives, whexclamatives, nominal exclamatives seem to exhibit the very same degree interpretation 3. She focuses on the computational models and on the methods used to detect the users surprise through language and speech processing. A successful account of the discourse behavior of exclamatives based on a proposed dynamic e. Uninflected welch has been claimed to occur only in exclamatives. Exploring the exclamative speech act from a discourse.
Speech acts, clausetypes and logical forms the ingredients of the puzzle. These are used to express strong feelings, strong emphasis or emotion. The discourse perspective taken in this dissertation suggests new directions for analysing various speech acts. Exclamatives in early english dialogues daniela schroeder 1 1university of hamburg institute for british and american studies vonmellepark 6 20146 hamburg, germany abstract exclamative is a term that covers a range of syntactic constructions which all semanti. Exclamatives, degrees and speech acts, linguistics and. It is proposed that the speechact marking prosody overrides informationstructural effects to some extent.
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