Surprise at the Intersection of Phenomenology and Linguistics
Edited by Natalie Depraz and Agnès Celle
[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 11] 2019. vi, 185 pp.
Agnès Celle
List of John Benjamins publications for which Agnès Celle plays a role.
Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Consciousness research | Discourse studies | Philosophy | Pragmatics | Psycholinguistics
Tense, Aspect, Modality, and Evidentiality: Crosslinguistic perspectives
Edited by Dalila Ayoun, Agnès Celle and Laure Lansari
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 197] 2018. viii, 366 pp.
Subjects Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Expressing and Describing Surprise
Edited by Agnès Celle and Laure Lansari
[Benjamins Current Topics, 92] 2017. v, 246 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics | Communication Studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics
The Linguistic Expression of Mirativity
Edited by Agnès Celle and Anastasios Tsangalidis
Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 15:2 (2017) v, 271 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics
Expressing and Describing Surprise
Edited by Agnès Celle and Laure Lansari
Special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 13:2 (2015) vi, 250 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive linguistics
Connectives as Discourse Landmarks
Edited by Agnès Celle and Ruth Huart
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 161] 2007. viii, 212 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax
2020 Chapter 17. Verbless sentences in L’Étranger: A French – Russian – English contrastive study The Expression of Tense, Aspect, Modality and Evidentiality in Albert Camus’s L'Étranger and Its Translations / L'Étranger de Camus et ses traductions : questions de temps, d'aspect, de modalité et d'évidentialité (TAME): An empirical study / Etude empirique, Corre, Eric, Danh Thành Do-Hurinville and Huy Linh Dao (eds.), pp. 325–351 | Chapter
What is aspectual meaning without a verb? Focusing on sentences in which the typical marker of aspectual meaning – the verb constellation – is absent, we use translations to explore the aspectual meaning pragmatically implicated by verbless sentences. Retrieved automatically, they were analyzed… read more
2019 Chapter 7. Interrogatives in surprise contexts in English Surprise at the Intersection of Phenomenology and Linguistics, Depraz, Natalie and Agnès Celle (eds.), pp. 117–138 | Chapter
Verbal reactions to surprising situations or surprising information often include interrogative structures rather than exclamatives, contrary to what is assumed in traditional grammars. In such contexts, interrogatives combine requests for information and the expression of surprise (possibly… read more
2019 Introduction Surprise at the Intersection of Phenomenology and Linguistics, Depraz, Natalie and Agnès Celle (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Chapter
2018 Chapter 1. Introduction: On the gradience of TAM-E categories Tense, Aspect, Modality, and Evidentiality: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Ayoun, Dalila, Agnès Celle and Laure Lansari (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Chapter
2018 Chapter 10. Questions as indirect speech acts in surprise contexts Tense, Aspect, Modality, and Evidentiality: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Ayoun, Dalila, Agnès Celle and Laure Lansari (eds.), pp. 213–238 | Chapter
This chapter offers an analysis of two types of interrogatives used as indirect speech acts in surprise contexts in English – unresolvable questions and rhetorical questions. The function of these questions is not to request information that is unknown to the speaker. It is argued that… read more
2017 Introduction The Linguistic Expression of Mirativity, Celle, Agnès and Anastasios Tsangalidis (eds.), pp. 305–311 | Introduction
2017 Introduction Expressing and Describing Surprise, Celle, Agnès and Laure Lansari (eds.), pp. 1–5 | Article
This paper is an introduction to this special issue on the description and expression of surprise. In line with the ANR-funded project it is part of, this volume aims to bridge the gap between emotion, cognition and linguistics. It stresses the unique status of surprise among emotions, uncovering… read more
2017 Expressing and describing surprise Expressing and Describing Surprise, Celle, Agnès and Laure Lansari (eds.), pp. 215–244 | Article
This paper re-examines the well-established distinction between expression and description of emotion as regards surprise. First, the authors show that the expression of surprise does not involve the use of surprise lexemes, but rather mirative utterances and specific syntactic constructions (while… read more
2015 Introduction Expressing and Describing Surprise, Celle, Agnès and Laure Lansari (eds.), pp. 265–269 | Article
This paper is an introduction to this special issue on the description and expression of surprise. In line with the ANR-funded project it is part of, this volume aims to bridge the gap between emotion, cognition and linguistics. It stresses the unique status of surprise among emotions, uncovering… read more
2014 Certainty, uncertainty and unexpectedness in English and French: Towards a redefinition of the epistemic stance Certainty and Uncertainty in Dialogue, Zuczkowski, Andrzej (ed.), pp. 7–23 | Article
The present contrastive English-French case study examines interactions in which an unexpected factor triggers a verbal reaction of surprise, hence affecting a speaker’s level of certainty. We focus on why-would questions in English and their equivalents in French and analyse them from a pragmatic… read more
2011 The intersubjective function of modal adverbs: A contrastive English-French study of adverbs in journalistic discourse Contrastive Pragmatics, Aijmer, Karin (ed.), pp. 23–36 | Article
This paper presents a contrastive study of modal adverbs in English and French, with a focus on a few pairs such as évidemment vs. ‘obviously’, apparemment vs. ‘apparently’. The relation between inference and epistemic modality is discussed both semantically and syntactically. Modal adverbs license… read more
2009 The intersubjective function of modal adverbs: A contrastive English-French study of adverbs in journalistic discourse Contrastive Pragmatics, Aijmer, Karin (ed.), pp. 23–36 | Article
This paper presents a contrastive study of modal adverbs in English and French, with a focus on a few pairs such as évidemment vs. ‘obviously’, apparemment vs. ‘apparently’. The relation between inference and epistemic modality is discussed both semantically and syntactically. Modal adverbs… read more
2008 Tense, modality and commitment in modes of mixed enunciation Commitment, De Brabanter, Philippe and Patrick Dendale (eds.), pp. 15–36 | Article
This paper presents a semantic treatment of the modal uses of the future tense and the conditional in French and a comparison with their English translations. It is argued that the future and the conditional convey the speaker’s commitment and non-commitment respectively, regardless of how… read more
2007 Connectives as discourse landmarks Connectives as Discourse Landmarks, Celle, Agnès and Ruth Huart (eds.), pp. 1–11 | Miscellaneous
2005 The French future tense and English will as markers of epistemic modality Languages in Contrast 5:2, pp. 181–218 | Article
The future tense in French and the modal auxiliary will in English can both express conjecture. This use is generally considered marginal compared to that of referring to future time. A unified analysis of the French future tense and of English will needs, however, to be able to account for the… read more