The semantics of emotive markers and other illocutionary content
J Rett - Journal of Semantics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
I identify a class of expressions called 'emotive markers,'exemplified by fortunately and alas,
which encode not-at-issue information about the speaker's emotive attitude towards the …
which encode not-at-issue information about the speaker's emotive attitude towards the …
A comparison of expressives
J Rett - Expressive meaning across linguistic levels and …, 2021 - books.google.com
I argue that, in a more nuanced typology of not-at-issue content that differentiates between
descriptive and illocutionary not-at-issue content, expressives belong in a category with …
descriptive and illocutionary not-at-issue content, expressives belong in a category with …
[PDF][PDF] The semantics of attitude markers and other illocutionary content
J Rett - Handout for the 6th Cornell Workshop on Linguistics …, 2016 - linguistics.ucla.edu
• Attitude markers encode:(a) the speaker's attitude;(b) towards some propositional content
of the utterance they are encoded in;(c) in not-at-issue content, ie in content that can't be …
of the utterance they are encoded in;(c) in not-at-issue content, ie in content that can't be …