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All rights reserved.  \nExclamativity in discourse  \nExploring the exclamative speech act from a discourse perspective  \nExclamativiteit in discourse  \nEen verkenning van de exclamatieve taalhandeling vanuit een discourseperspectief  \n(met een samenvatting in het Nederlands)  \nProefschrift  \nter verkrijging van de graad van doctor  \naan de Universiteit Utrecht  \nop gezag van de rector magnificus, prof.dr. G.J. van der Zwaan, ingevolge het besluit van het college voor promoties in het openbaar te verdedigen op woensdag 11 juni 2014 des ochtends te 10.30 uur  \ndoor  \nAnna Chernilovskaya  \ngeboren op 6 december 1983  \nte Novosibirsk, Sovjet-Unie  \nPromotor: [Prof.dr. H.E. de](Prof.dr. H.E. de) Swart  \nCo-promotor: Dr. R.W.F. Nouwen  \nContents  \nList of Tables ................................. ix  \nAcknowledgements .............................. xi  \n1 Introduction 1  \n1.1 Wh-exclamatives: between form and speech act ......... 1  \n1.1.1 The mapping between syntactic form and speech act .. 3  \n1.1.2 The mapping between semantic denotation and discourse function ........................... 4  \n1.1.3 The exclamative sentence type? .............. 5  \n1.2 Defining a speech act ........................ 8  \n1.2.1 Two perspectives on speech acts ............. 8  \n1.2.2 The exclamative speech act? ............... 10  \n1.3 Plan of the dissertation ...................... 11  \n2 Background 15  \n2.1 Introduction ............................. 15  \n2.2 Overview of background literature ................ 17  \n2.2.1 Rett (2011) ......................... 17  \n2.2.2 Zanuttini and Portner (2003) ............... 21  \n2.2.3 Castroviejo´ Miro´ (2008) .................. 24  \n2.3 Proposal for the what-question .................. 26  \n2.3.1 Preliminary proposal .................... 28  \n2.3.2 One or two exclamative contents? ............ 29  \n2.3.3 Scalar and non-scalar wh-exclamatives .......... 30  \n2.3.4 Attitudes expressed by wh-exclamatives ......... 32  \n2.3.5 A judge of evaluation in wh-exclamative content .... 34  \n2.4 Conclusion ............................. 39  \nvi  \n3 Discourse properties of wh-exclamatives 43  \n3.1 Introduction ............................. 43  \n3.2 Wh-exclamative content is an entailment ............. 47  \n3.2.1 Introduction ........................ 47  \n3.2.2 Denying the wh-exclamative content ........... 48  \n3.2.3 Summary .......................... 50  \n3.3 Wh-exclamative content is not asserted ............. 50  \n3.3.1 Introduction ........................ 50  \n3.3.2 Challenging assertions involving speaker-privileged information ............................ 53  \n3.3.3 Wh-exclamatives cannot be challenged directly ..... 55  \n3.3.4 Indirect challenge markers following wh-exclamatives .. 59  \n3.3.5 Wh-exclamatives can be challenged by asserting the opposite ............................ 60  \n3.3.6 Interim summary ...................... 62  \n3.4 How wh-exclamative content is confirmed and accepted .... 63  \n3.4.1 Introduction ........................ 63  \n3.4.2 Wh-exclamative content cannot be accepted ....... 68  \n3.4.3 Can wh-exclamative content be confirmed? ....... 68  \n3.4.4 Summary .......................... 73  \n3.5 Other discourse properties of wh-exclamatives .......... 74  \n3.5.1 Wh-exclamatives as responses to questions ....... 74  \n3.5.2 Wh-exclamatives can be used to introduce new information 79  \n3.5.3 Wh-exclamatives can be inserted into narration ..... 80  \n3.5.4 Can wh-exclamatives be used to defend speaker’s position? 81  \n3.5.5 Wh-exclamatives do not require reaction from the addressee 81  \n3.5.6 Summary .......................... ","cbCaidLaMkvWVNxh","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidLaMkvWVNxh","pdf",745465,173,"English","# 1 Introduction\n## 1.1 Wh-exclamatives: between form and speech act\n## 1.2 Defining a speech act\n## 1.3 Plan of the dissertation\n# 2 Background\n## 2.1 Introduction\n## 2.2 Overview of background literature\n## 2.3 Proposal for the what-question\n## 2.4 Conclusion\n# 3 Discourse properties of wh-exclamatives\n## 3.1 Introduction\n## 3.2 Wh-exclamative content is an entailment\n## 3.3 Wh-exclamative content is not asserted\n## 3.4 How wh-exclamative content is confirmed and accepted\n## 3.5 Other discourse properties of wh-exclamatives\n## 3.6 Discourse properties of four wh-exclamative contents\n## 3.7 Conclusion\n# 4 A model of context\n## 4.1 Introduction\n## 4.2 Farkas and Bruce (2009)’s model of context\n## 4.3 Farkas and Bruce (2009)’s proposal for assertion\n## 4.4 Assertions with non-asserted contents\n## 4.5 Conclusion\n# 5 The context-change effect of wh-exclamatives\n## 5.1 Introduction\n## 5.2 Proposal for the how-question\n## 5.3 Derivation of discourse properties of wh-exclamatives\n## 5.4 Comparison to the literature\n## 5.5 Wh-exclamatives and convention\n## 5.6 Extension of the propos","[{\"question\":\"What is the central focus of the dissertation?\",\"answer\":\"The dissertation focuses on the exclamative speech act, especially wh-exclamatives, viewed from a discourse perspective. 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