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<p>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 <italic>Washington Square</italic>. 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.</p>
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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.

Exclamatives as means of exhibiting emotions in  Henry James’s <italic>Washington Square</italic>: Pragmatic aspect

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Exclamatives as means of exhibiting emotions in  Henry James’s : 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...

Exclamatives as means of exhibiting emotions in Henry James’s Washington Square: Pragmatic aspect

Published Online: May 14, 2023

Page range: 157 - 173

Received: May 18, 2022

Accepted: Nov 21, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/exell-2023-0004

Keywords
Universal Emotions, exclamative utterances, Speech Acts Theory, pragmatics, dialogical discourse

© 2023 Olha Lapka, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Exclamatives as means of exhibiting emotions in Henry James’s Washington Square: Pragmatic aspect

Published Online: May 14, 2023

Page range: 157 - 173

Received: May 18, 2022

Accepted: Nov 21, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/exell-2023-0004

KeywordsUniversal Emotions, exclamative utterances, Speech Acts Theory, pragmatics, dialogical discourse

© 2023 Olha Lapka, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Universal Emotions, exclamative utterances, Speech Acts Theory, pragmatics, dialogical discourse