Interjections in general can be considered linguistic expressions of emotions and attitudes, constituting complete and self-contained utterances. Though all languages are believed to have ‘emotive interjections’, the literature on interjections and emotions has proved to be sparse, while studies on… read more
This article presents the results of a study carried out with Spanish University
students on their use of strategies of (in)directness when expressing complaints,
disapprovals and disagreements in English and Spanish. We adopt a role-play
eliciting procedure for the collection of what a speaker… read more
A broad view of evidentiality is adopted, based on Chafe (1986) and Haviland (1987) which goes beyond the grammatical marking of the speaker’s or writer’s perceived sources of knowledge and reliability of these sources to encode, not only what the speaker knows and how s/he knows it, but also what… read more