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Exclamatives, exclamations, miratives and speaker's meaning

Unger, Christoph Johannes
Journal article, Peer reviewed
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http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2609109
Date
2019
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10.1163/18773109-01102104
Abstract
Exclamations, exclamatives and miratives are utterances that do not merely convey some informative content, but are designed to express the emotional attitude of surprise. In this paper I argue that analysing what it means to express surprise must be based on three main ideas: (1) the idea that exclamatives are instances of metarepresentational use; (2) the idea that what is communicated in exclamatives and exclamations are what relevance theorists call impressions, rather than definite propositions, where impressions are communicated by slightly increasing the manifestness of a whole range of propositions; and (3) the idea that utterances may not only communicate by conveying Gricean meaning\textsubscript{NN}, but also by showing, i.e. by providing direct evidence for certain thoughts. Thus, what is communicated in exclamatives and exclamations is typically not reducible to Gricean speaker meanings. I outline the implications of my approach by comparing it to some recent semantic accounts.
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Brill Academic Publishers
Journal
International Review of Pragmatics

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