Exclamatives as means of exhibiting emotions in Henry James’s Washington Square: Pragmatic aspect
The article aims to analyse exclamatives as means of expressing emotions in dialogical discourse through the Speech Acts Theory. In particular, it dwells upon the representation of the Universal Emotion by the sub-classes of speech acts on the material of Henry James’s Washington Square. For this pu...
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| description | The article aims to analyse exclamatives as means of expressing emotions in dialogical discourse through the Speech Acts Theory. In particular, it dwells upon the representation of the Universal Emotion by the sub-classes of speech acts on the material of Henry James’s Washington Square. For this purpose, a structural-semantic analysis, a speech acts analysis, an intentional analysis, and a statistical analysis were used in the research. The results established pragmatic regularities of using the exclamatives in the course of communication in the novel. Thus, emotions play an essential role in constructing the character’s individual features, each of them having his/her predominant emotion. In addition, the statistical analysis showed that the majority of the analysed exclamatives are used to express the emotions of anger, joy, and sadness, which are construed predominantly by expressive and representative speech acts. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d47e35f34dea48428caca4d2b71ddcf32023-05-31T07:00:09ZengSciendoExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics)2303-48582022-12-0110215717310.2478/exell-2023-0004Exclamatives as means of exhibiting emotions in Henry James’s Washington Square: Pragmatic aspectLapka Olha01Center for Strategic Innovations and Progressive Development, Kyiv, Ukraine; University of Jaén, Jaén, SpainThe article aims to analyse exclamatives as means of expressing emotions in dialogical discourse through the Speech Acts Theory. In particular, it dwells upon the representation of the Universal Emotion by the sub-classes of speech acts on the material of Henry James’s Washington Square. For this purpose, a structural-semantic analysis, a speech acts analysis, an intentional analysis, and a statistical analysis were used in the research. The results established pragmatic regularities of using the exclamatives in the course of communication in the novel. Thus, emotions play an essential role in constructing the character’s individual features, each of them having his/her predominant emotion. In addition, the statistical analysis showed that the majority of the analysed exclamatives are used to express the emotions of anger, joy, and sadness, which are construed predominantly by expressive and representative speech acts.https://doi.org/10.2478/exell-2023-0004universal emotionsexclamative utterancesspeech acts theorypragmaticsdialogical discourse |
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| title | Exclamatives as means of exhibiting emotions in Henry James’s Washington Square: Pragmatic aspect |
| title_full | Exclamatives as means of exhibiting emotions in Henry James’s Washington Square: Pragmatic aspect |
| title_fullStr | Exclamatives as means of exhibiting emotions in Henry James’s Washington Square: Pragmatic aspect |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exclamatives as means of exhibiting emotions in Henry James’s Washington Square: Pragmatic aspect |
| title_short | Exclamatives as means of exhibiting emotions in Henry James’s Washington Square: Pragmatic aspect |
| title_sort | exclamatives as means of exhibiting emotions in henry james s washington square pragmatic aspect |
| topic | universal emotions exclamative utterances speech acts theory pragmatics dialogical discourse |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2478/exell-2023-0004 |
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