Comment: Interjections and Expressivity

Riemer, Nick

doi:10.1177/1754073913494892

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“…The standard NSM position on the status of semantic primes, for example, someone, know, think, want, good, bad, because, is that they are rock-bottom elements in the human conceptual system as embodied in language: that is, they are both linguistic and conceptual. Contrary to Riemer's (2014) disparaging comment "Asserting is not enough, evidence is needed", substantial empirical evidence suggests that they manifest as lexical meanings across diverse languages (Goddard, 2008(Goddard, , 2012Goddard & Wierzbicka, 2002;Goddard & Wierzbicka, in press;Peeters, 2006). Semantic primes can thus plausibly be hypothesised to be innate.…”

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Goddard

2013

Emotion Review

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Sauter raises interesting points about expressive vocalisations, such as laughing, crying, gasping, etcetera. This reply discusses an expanded research agenda incorporating these. Riemer's commentary is based on his opposition to nonreferentialist approaches to meaning. My reply seeks to clarify the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) position on the conceptual status of semantic primes, while urging researchers to consider independently the merits of reductive paraphrase as a heuristic and a corrective to terminological Anglocentrism.

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“…In contrast to Sauter, Riemer (2014) raises no empirical claims—about interjections, about emotions, or about differences between languages. After declaring he will concentrate on the “theoretical challenges of expressive vocabulary,” he segues into a critique of conceptual analysis of nonreferential meaning in general.…”

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2013

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A semantics of face emoji in discourse

Grosz

Greenberg

Leon

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Linguist and Philos

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This paper presents an analysis of face emoji (disc-shaped pictograms with stylized facial expressions) that accompany written text. We propose that there is a use of face emoji in which they comment on a target proposition expressed by the accompanying text, as opposed to making an independent contribution to discourse. Focusing on positively valenced and negatively valenced emoji (which we gloss as happy and unhappy, respectively), we argue that the emoji comment on how the target proposition bears on a contextually provided discourse value endorsed by the author. Discourse values embody what an author desires, aspires to, wishes for, or hopes for. Our analysis derives a range of non-trivial generalizations, including (i) ordering restrictions with regards to the placement of emoji and text, (ii) cases of apparent mixed emotions, and (iii) cases where the lexical content of the accompanying text influences the acceptability of a face emoji.

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Throw

Francis,

Grosz,

Patel-Grosz

2023

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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This paper provides a detailed description of the distribution of an utterance-accompanying or utterance-replacing throwing away gesture (see Bressem & Müller 2014, 2017), THROW, and proposes a formal analysis of its contribution. We argue that this gesture conveys dismissal, which we model as the marking of the question addressed by a preceding discourse move as unimportant. This work extends the growing body of linguistic work on formal gesture semantics to discourse-management gestures; moreover, we find that the dismissal meaning encoded by THROW is unlike other discourse-management operators in being unable to operate on propositional content that it accompanies.

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Comment: Interjections and Expressivity

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