El-Tawassol التواصل
Volume 25, Numéro 1, Pages 216-232
2020-04-23

An Analytical Description Of Exclamatory Sentences In English

Authors : Chaibeddra Samira .

Abstract

The present research paper is an analytical description of exclamatory forms in English. Its main objective is to examine the research studies that shed light on these language structures from a grammatical and a pragmatic perspective. Analysing the available literature on these sentences revealed some discrepancies in the views of grammarians with regard to their terminology and classification as a sentence type as well as insufficiency in extensive research that covers their pragmatics. Moreover, it demonstrated that most of these studies targeted wh-exclamatives at the expense of other forms.

Keywords

Exclamatory sentences, analytical description, grammatical, pragmatic.