Projected meaning in English and French: The embedded exclamative construction

Troughton, Faye

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Projected meaning in English and French: The embedded exclamative construction

Troughton, Faye

2024 • In Languages in Contrast: International Journal for Contrastive Linguistics, 24 (2), p. 248 - 270

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English/French; exclamative; illocutionary force; mirativity; projection; Linguistics and Language

Abstract :

[en] This study offers a reanalysis of embedded exclamative constructions as true exclamative, and even as mirative, items. Through a quantitative study of the constructions and the verbs that licence them in English and French, it is demonstrated that not only do these embedded constructions resemble their non-embedded counterparts, their conventional meaning is not over-ruled by a matrix clause but rather projected by it.

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Languages & linguistics

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Troughton, Faye ; Université de Mons - UMONS > Faculté de Traduction et d'Interprétation - Ecole d'Interprètes Internationaux > Service d'Etudes anglaises : Littérature, langue, interprétation et traduction

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English

Title :

Projected meaning in English and French: The embedded exclamative construction

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11 October 2024

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Languages in Contrast: International Journal for Contrastive Linguistics

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1387-6759

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1569-9897

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John Benjamins Publishing Company

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248 - 270

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T210 - English : Literature, Language, Interpretation and Translation

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