Deconstructing Exclamations

  1. Castroviejo Miró, Elena
Revista:
Catalan journal of linguistics

ISSN: 1695-6885

Año de publicación: 2008

Título del ejemplar: Exclamatives at the Interfaces

Volumen: 7

Páginas: 41-90

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.5565/REV/CATJL.132 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDDD editor

Otras publicaciones en: Catalan journal of linguistics

Resumen

While it is still not widely accepted that exclamatives are a clause type, exclamations are intuitively considered a speech act comparable to assertions and questions. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the notion of exclamation. In particular, I compare the pragmatic properties of whexclamatives with the discourse distribution of other so-called exclamations and argue that they do not have a uniform way to update the Common Ground; by using a series of tests, I show that the sole thing they have in common is an emphatic intonation and a non-neutral attitude on the part of the speaker.

Referencias bibliográficas

  • Atlas, Jay D. (2005). Logic, Meaning, and Conversation: Semantical Underdeterminacy, Implicature, and Their Interface. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Atlas, Jay D.; Levinson, Stephen (1981). “It-clefts, Informativeness, and Logical Form: An Introduction to Radically Radical Pragmatics (Revised Standard Version)’’. In: Cole, Peter (ed.). Radical Pragmatics. New York: Academic Press, pp. 1-61.
  • Alonso-Cortés, Ángel (1999). La exclamación en español: estudio sintáctico y pragmático. Madrid: Minerva ediciones.
  • Austin, J. L. (1962). How To Do Things With Words. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
  • Brucart, Josep M.; Rigau, Gemma (2002). “La quantificació”. In: Solà, Joan; Lloret, M. Rosa; Mascaró, Joan; Pérez Saldanya, Manuel (eds.). Gramàtica del català contemporani. Barcelona: Empúries, pp. 1517–1589.
  • Castroviejo, Elena (2006). Wh-Exclamatives in Catalan. Universitat de Barcelona, doctoral dissertation.
  • Castroviejo, Elena (2007). “A Degree-Based Account of Wh-Exclamatives in Catalan”. In: Puig-Waldemüller, Estela (ed.). Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11. Barcelona: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 134-149.
  • Castroviejo, Elena (2007). “La qüestió de les exclamatives”. Llengua i literatura 18: 317-349.
  • Elliott, Dale (1974). “Toward a Grammar of Exclamations”. Foundations of Language 10: 41-53.
  • Gauker, Christopher (2003). Words Without Meaning. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
  • Ginzburg, Jonathan and Sag, Ivan (2001). Interrogative Investigations: The Form, Meaning, and Use of English Interrogatives. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
  • Grice, Paul (1989). Studies In the Way of Words. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
  • Grimshaw, Jane (1979). “Complement Selection and the Lexicon”. Linguistic Inquiry 10: 279-326.
  • Gunlogson, C. (2001). True to Form: Rising and Falling Declaratives as Questions in English. University of California, Santa Cruz, doctoral dissertation.
  • Gunlogson, C. (2005). “Modelling Who Knows What”. Talk given at Sinn und Bedeutung 2005. Berlin: Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft.
  • Gutiérrez-Rexach, Javier (1999). “The Structure and Interpretation of Spanish Degree Neuter Constructions”. Lingua 109: 35-63.
  • Gutiérrez-Rexach, Javier (2001). “Spanish Exclamatives and the Interpretation of the Left Periphery”. In Johan Rooryck, Yves de Hulst, and Jan Schroten (Eds.). Selected Papers from Going Romance 99. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
  • Gutiérrez-Rexach, Javier (this volume). “Spanish Root Exclamatives at the Syntax/Semantics Interface”. Catalan Journal of Linguistics 7: 117-133.
  • Han, Chung-Hye (2002). “Interpreting Interrogatives as Rhetorical Questions”. Lingua 112: 201-229.
  • Heim, Irene (1982). “The Semantics of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases”. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, doctoral dissertation. [published as The Semantics of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases. New York: Garland, 1989]
  • Katz, Graham (2005). “Attitudes Toward Degrees”. Bary, C.; Maier, E.; Huitink, J. (eds.). Proceedings Sinn und Bedeutung 9.
  • Kennedy, Christopher (1999). Projecting the Adjective. The Syntax and Semantics of Gradability and Comparison. New York: Garland.
  • Mayol, Laia (this volume). “Catalan “Déu n’hi do” and Conventional Implicatures in Exclamatives”. Catalan Journal of Linguistics 7: 135-156.
  • Meier, Cécile (2003). “The Meaning of too, enough and so…that”. Natural Language Semantics 11: 69–107.
  • Payrató, Lluís (2002). “L’enunciació i la modalitat oracional’’. In: Solà, Joan; Lloret, M. Rosa; Mascaró, Joan; Pérez Saldanya, Manuel (eds.). Gramàtica del català contemporani. Barcelona: Empúries, pp. 1149-1220.
  • Portner, Paul; Zanuttini, Raffaella (2005). “The Semantics of Nominal Exclamatives”. In: Stainton, R.; Elugardo, R. (eds.). Ellipsis and Non-Sentential Speech. Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp. 57–67.
  • Potts, Chris (2005). The Logic of Conventional Implicatures. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Potts, Chris (2007). “The Expressive Dimension”. Theoretical Linguistics 33(2): 165-198.
  • Saebø, Kjell Johan. (2005). “Explaining Clausal Exclamatives”. Paper presented at the JSM05, Paris.
  • Schlenker, Paul (2007). “Expressive Presuppositions”. Theoretical Linguistics 33(2): 237-246.
  • Searle, John R. (1969). Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Searle, John R. (1979). Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Stalnaker, Robert C. (1978). “Assertion”. In Peter Cole (ed.). Syntax and Semantics, vol. 9: Pragmatics. New York: Academic Press. pp. 315-332.
  • Stalnaker, Robert C. (1998). “On the Representation of Context”. Journal of Logic, Language, and Information 7: 3-19.
  • Stalnaker, Robert C. (2002). “Common Ground”. Linguistics and Philosophy 25: 701–721.
  • Villalba, Xavier (2003). “An Exceptional Exclamative Sentence Type in Romance”. Lingua, 113: 713-745.
  • Zanuttini, Raffaella & Portner, Paul (2003). “Exclamative Clauses: At the SyntaxSemantics Interface”. Language 79: 39-81.
Fuente de los datos: Dialnet