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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear Jürgen and everybody,<br>
      <br>
      on the one hand, questions like whether exclamations have
      illocutionary force may be decided <i>per definitionem</i>. On
      the other, these are concepts which are reflected in linguistic
      structure; therefore we try to define them so as to maximize their
      match with linguistic structure.<br>
      <br>
      I modestly surmise that, from this point of view, <span
        style="font-family:"CMU Serif"">Searle &
        Vanderveken's definition of 'expressives' produces a
        (linguistically) incoherent category, as it is meant to include,
        on the one hand,  congratulations, excuses and thanks, and on
        the other, exclamations like the ones I quoted before. These are
        two different categories: the former triple appeals to the
        hearer, exclamations do not. <br>
        <br>
        Also, exclamative sentences constitute a sentence type in many
        languages, beside the basic sentence types of </span><span
        style="font-family:"CMU Serif"">declarative, directive
        and interrogative. However, there are performative verbs for
        these latter (as there are performative verbs for
        congratulations, excuses and thanks) , while</span><span
        style="font-family:"CMU Serif""> there is no
        performative verb for exclamations like 'I hereby exclaim that
        p.' It therefore remains to be plausibilized that exclamations
        "perform a speech act", as you say. But again, this may be a
        matter of definition.<br>
        <br>
        At any rate, from a linguistic point of view, the uppermost
        division of utterances might be into interactive and exclamative
        ones. And the entire business of illocution would develop inside
        the category of interactive utterances.<br>
        <br>
        Sorry for bothering the list of linguistic typology with
        semantic and maybe pragmatic issues. However, we do typological
        comparison on the basis of functional categories and operations;
        and all the while I am trying to systematize these.<br>
        <br>
        Best,<br>
        Christian<br>
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      Am 25.08.24 um 15:55 schrieb Juergen Bohnemeyer:<br>
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            style="font-family:"CMU Serif"">Dear Christian –
            According to my understanding of speech act theory, the only
            way for an utterance to fail to perform a speech act is by
            being infelicitous. (This generalization hinges on the
            definition of ‘utterance.’ I believe that the generalization
            holds, at least in first approximation, if ‘utterance’ is
            understood as a minimal ‘turn-constructing unit’ in the
            sense of conversation analysis.) Therefore, your examples in
            (2) must have illocutionary force unless they happen to be
            infelicitous, which would presumably depend on the context
            (as there is nothing obvious in the sentences themselves
            that would render them infelicitous). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:"CMU Serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:"CMU Serif"">On the
            classification developed by Searle (1976) and Searle &
            Vanderveken (1985), these utterances would be ‘expressives’,
            which Searle & Vanderveken define as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            style="font-family:"CMU Serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:"CMU Serif"">“The expressive
            point is to express feelings and attitudes. In utterances
            with the expressive point the speaker expresses some
            psychological attitude about the state of affairs
            represented by the propositional content.” (S&V p38)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:"CMU Serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:"CMU Serif"">Now, Searle (and
            Searle & Vanderveken) claim(s) the classification of
            speech acts into ‘assertions’, ‘directives’, ‘commissives’,
            ‘declarations’, and ‘expressives’ to be exhaustive. To me,
            this seems rather implausible. So there may well be a
            superior classification to be had, which may place your
            examples under a different category. And perhaps an
            exhaustive classification of speech acts without a remainder
            category is in fact impossible. The problem of classifying
            speech acts strikes me rather analogous to that of
            classifying semantic roles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:"CMU Serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:"CMU Serif"">Best – Juergen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:"CMU Serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:"CMU Serif"">Searle, J. R.
            (1976). A classification of illocutionary acts. Language in
            Society 5(1): 1-23.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:"CMU Serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-family:"CMU Serif"">Searle, J. R.
            & D. Vanderveken. (1985). Foundations of illocutionary
            logic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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            style="font-family:"CMU Serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Juergen
                Bohnemeyer (He/Him)<br>
                Professor, Department of Linguistics<br>
                University at Buffalo <br>
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                  <b><span style="color:black">From: </span></b><span
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                    <b>Date: </b>Sunday, August 25, 2024 at 12:14<br>
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                    <b>Subject: </b>[Lingtyp] optative sentences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Dear
                colleagues, <o:p></o:p></p>
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                since my master’s thesis (admittedly, a couple years
                ago), I have been struggling with the manifestation of
                volition in grammar. Please consider the following
                contrast:<o:p></o:p></p>
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                There is one type of utterances which communicate to the
                hearer that the speaker <u> wants</u> P. Like a
                command, they appeal to him to see to it that P be
                realized. This is explicit in (1a).<o:p></o:p></p>
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                (1)(a) Please shut the window!<o:p></o:p></p>
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                    (b) The window should be shut.<o:p></o:p></p>
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                In this sense, (1b) is an indirect speech act, but the
                type of volition conveyed is the same. One might say
                that (1)(a) and (b) share their illocutionary force.<o:p></o:p></p>
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                <o:p> </o:p></p>
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                There is another type of utterances which express that
                the speaker <u>wishes</u> P. They are exclamations
                which do not appeal to anybody for fulfillment of P:<o:p></o:p></p>
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                (2)(a) If only Linda arrived in time!<o:p></o:p></p>
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                    (b) The devil take him!<o:p></o:p></p>
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                Sentences of type #2 are introduced by <i>utinam</i> in
                Latin, <i>ojalá</i> in Spanish, and so forth. Such
                particles are not used in sentences of type #1.<o:p></o:p></p>
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                <o:p> </o:p></p>
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                Also, unfulfillable wishes (traditionally: irreal
                optative sentences) are fine and common as type #2, but
                in type #1 produce utterances hard to interpret.<o:p></o:p></p>
              <p class="western"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in">
                <o:p> </o:p></p>
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                Here are my questions to you:<o:p></o:p></p>
              <p class="western"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
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                    </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Is there an
                established conceptual and terminological distinction
                between these two types? How about (1) volitive and (2)
                optative?<o:p></o:p></p>
              <p class="western"
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                    </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Does type #2 have
                an illocutionary force? Do exclamations have an
                illocutionary force?<o:p></o:p></p>
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                    style="font-size:11.0pt">Prof. em. Dr. Christian
                    Lehmann<br>
                    Rudolfstr. 4<br>
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        Rudolfstr. 4<br>
        99092 Erfurt<br>
        <span style="font-variant:small-caps">Deutschland</span></p>
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            <td>Tel.:</td>
            <td>+49/361/2113417</td>
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            <td>E-Post:</td>
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                href="mailto:christianw_lehmann@arcor.de">christianw_lehmann@arcor.de</a></td>
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            <td>Web:</td>
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                href="https://www.christianlehmann.eu">https://www.christianlehmann.eu</a></td>
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