Isabel Anders
Biographic Data
| ID | 9284491 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Isabel Anders |
| GIVEN NAMES | Isabel |
| FAMILY NAME | Anders |
| SIGNATURE | ANDERS I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deutsches Institut, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz , Jakob-Welder-Weg 18, D 55128 Mainz , Germany |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Not all exclamatives behave the same
This article challenges the claim that exclamative sentences lack an illocutionary force of exclamation and are semantically equivalent to emotive assertions. Drawing on German data, we show that there are different classes of exclamatives that vary with respect to deniability and do not function well as answers to information-seeking questions but rather serve as replies in discourse. We argue that all the different classes need to be taken into…
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Not all exclamatives behave the same
This article challenges the claim that exclamative sentences lack an illocutionary force of exclamation and are semantically equivalent to emotive assertions. Drawing on German data, we show that there are different classes of exclamatives that vary with respect to deniability and do not function well as answers to information-seeking questions but rather serve as replies in discourse. We argue that all the different classes need to be taken into…
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (1 work) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (1 work) · Philosophy (1 work) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (1 work)