Table of contents
Introduction
1–5
Surprise as a conceptual category
7–26
The complex, language-specific semantics of “surprise”
27–49
Grammatical evidentiality and the unprepared mind
51–89
Operationalizing mirativity
A usage-based quantitative study of constructional construal in English
91–120
The computer-mediated expression of surprise
A corpus analysis of chats by English and Italian native speakers and Italian learners of English
121–151
Surprise routines in scientific writing
A study of French social science articles
153–172
Surprise in the GRID
173–196
Surprise and human-agent interactions
197–213
Expressing and describing surprise
215–244
Index
245–246
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