Exclamatives, Normalcy Conditions and Common Ground
This article is about the relation between a speaker’s notion of normality, his normalcy conceptions, and certain properties of exclamative utterances. With the use of an exclamative sentence, a speaker expresses that the state of affairs described by a proposition given in the sentence is not in ac...
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| Format: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Sprog: | Anglais |
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Revue de sémantique et pragmatique
2018
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| Online adgang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Summary: | This article is about the relation between a speaker’s notion of normality, his normalcy conceptions, and certain properties of exclamative utterances. With the use of an exclamative sentence, a speaker expresses that the state of affairs described by a proposition given in the sentence is not in accordance with his or her normalcy conditions. I will first explain what I mean by ‚normalcy conception‘. Then, I will show for certain cases of exclamatives that exclamatives stand in a certain relation to the speaker’s normalcy conceptions, in the case under discussion via the set of alternatives that is established by focus effects of the exclamative accent. Last I will argue that the notion ‚that the speaker did not expect a certain proposition’ becomes part of the common ground by being part of the felicity conditions of exclamative utterances. |
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