L’exclamation en contexte.
The notion of exclamation contains both the idea of exteriorisation and intensity. Evidence from the context shows that exclamation is a modulation, compatible with most utterances, and giving salience either to a full utterance (enunciative salience) or to an element of an utterance (intra-enunciat...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cercle linguistique du Centre et de l'Ouest - CerLICO
2020-03-01
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| Series: | Corela |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/corela/9937 |
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| Summary: | The notion of exclamation contains both the idea of exteriorisation and intensity. Evidence from the context shows that exclamation is a modulation, compatible with most utterances, and giving salience either to a full utterance (enunciative salience) or to an element of an utterance (intra-enunciative salience). This paper also examines the motivation of exclamation: situational or contextual assessment and pre-modal evaluative motivation; inter-enunciative pragmatic motivation; or intra-enunciative motivation in the case of focalisation. The analysis of a corpus of exclamative utterances – apostrophes, interjections, focalisation, injunctions; deontic, optative, assertive, evaluative utterances; exclamative constructions – shows that pluri-modality is very often relevant, and questions definitions of exclamation as an effect of surprise, or of an emotional state, or as the expression of high degree. |
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| ISSN: | 1638-573X |