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This volume is the first to explore the formal linguistic expressions of emotions at different levels of linguistic complexity. Research on the language-emotion interface has to date concentrated primarily on the conceptual dimension of emotions as expressed via language, with semantic and pragmatic studies dominating the field. The chapters in this book, in contrast, bring together work from different linguistic frameworks: generative syntax, functional and usage-based linguistics, formal semantics and pragmatics, and experimental phonology. The volume contributes to the growing field of research that explores the interaction between linguistic expressions and the 'expressive dimension' of language, and will be of interest to linguists from a range of theoretical backgrounds who are interested in the language-emotion interface.

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Author:   Andreas Trotzke (Außerplanmäßiger Professor, Department of Linguistics, Adjunct Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Konstanz) ,  Xavier Villalba (Associate Professor of Catalan Linguistics, Associate Professor of Catalan Linguistics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.658kg
ISBN:  

9780198871217

ISBN 10:   019887121
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   26 August 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Andreas Trotzke and Xavier Villalba: Expressive meaning across linguistic levels and frameworks 2: Norbert Corver: On classifiers and affect in the nominal domain: Organizing 'disorganization' 3: Roland Hinterhölzl and Nicola Munaro: On the illocutionary force of exclamatives and non-canonical questions in German and Italian 4: Matteo Greco: Function words and polarity: The case of negation 5: Silvio Cruschina and Valentina Bianchi: Mirative implicatures at the syntax-semantics interface: A surprising association and an unexpected move 6: Andreas Trotzke and Xavier Villalba: Expressive insubordination: A cross-linguistic study on that-exclamatives 7: Patrizia Noel Aziz Hanna: Connectors as emotive signs: Expressivity in the right sentence periphery 8: Agnès Celle, Anne Jugnet, and Laure Lansari: Expressive questions in English and French: What the hell versus Mais qu'est-ce que 9: Victoria Escandell-Vidal and Manuel Leonetti: The Spanish 'mirative future' 10: Jessica Rett: A comparison of expressives and miratives 11: Osamu Sawada and Jun Sawada: Cross-linguistic variations in the interpretation of tense in mirative sentences: A view from Japanese mirative expressions nante/towai 12: Lisa Brunetti, Hiyon Yoo, Lucia Tovena, and Rachel Albar: French reason-comment ('how') questions: A view from prosody

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This volume offers cutting-edge research on the structural coding of expressive meaning. The eleven chapters plus introduction convincingly show that emotion finds expression on the syntactic, morphological, and prosodic level. Different theoretical frameworks, ranging from generative to functional and usage-based, support the challenge of discovering the often subtle expressive meaning-form relations in various languages (Romance, Germanic, Japanese). * Ad Foolen, Radboud University * The highly synthesizing contributions in this volume are rich with insight and detail, jointly updating and re-defining the concepts of expressivity and emotion that emerged in linguistic literature twenty years ago. This impressive volume makes valuable new advances- and presents the state of the art for anyone who wants to know how linguists understand emotive language today, and what tools are available for analysis in this area. * Anastasia Giannakidou, Frank J. McLoraine Professor of Linguistics, University of Chicago * Expressivity has been one of the hot topics in linguistics recently and this volume demonstrates the breadth and relevance of this topic by showcasing insightful and original case studies from a variety of theoretical backgrounds. The volume will be a valuable resource on the state of the art and will provide starting points for new investigations into expressivity. * Daniel Gutzmann, University of Cologne *

This volume offers cutting-edge research on the structural coding of expressive meaning. The eleven chapters plus introduction convincingly show that emotion finds expression on the syntactic, morphological, and prosodic level. Different theoretical frameworks, ranging from generative to functional and usage-based, support the challenge of discovering the often subtle expressive meaning-form relations in various languages (Romance, Germanic, Japanese). * Ad Foolen, Radboud University * The highly synthesizing contributions in this volume are rich with insight and detail, jointly updating and re-defining the concepts of expressivity and emotion that emerged in linguistic literature twenty years ago. This impressive volume makes valuable new advancesDL and presents the state of the art for anyone who wants to know how linguists understand emotive language today, and what tools are available for analysis in this area. * Anastasia Giannakidou, Frank J. McLoraine Professor of Linguistics, University of Chicago * Expressivity has been one of the hot topics in linguistics recently and this volume demonstrates the breadth and relevance of this topic by showcasing insightful and original case studies from a variety of theoretical backgrounds. The volume will be a valuable resource on the state of the art and will provide starting points for new investigations into expressivity. * Daniel Gutzmann, University of Cologne *

Author Information

Andreas Trotzke is Außerplanmäßiger Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz. His areas of expertise include pragmatics, the syntax-pragmatics interface, psycholinguistics, and language education, and his research has been published in journals such as Journal of Pragmatics, Frontiers in Psychology, Journal of Linguistics, Linguistics, and Lingua. He is the General Editor of the journal Pedagogical Linguistics (Benjamins), the editor of numerous volumes, and the author of three monographs, of which the most recent is The Grammar of Emphasis: From Information Structure to the Expressive Dimension (de Gruyter, 2017). Xavier Villalba is Associate Professor of Catalan Linguistics and member of the Centre de Lingüística Teòrica at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. His research interests include the interface between syntax and information structure, particularly right-dislocation, and between syntax and semantics/pragmatics, especially exclamative and existential sentences. His work has appeared in journals such as Discourse Processes, Journal of Pragmatics, and Lingua, and in edited volumes from Routledge, Benjamins, and de Gruyter.

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