Exclamation in English and Arabic: a contrastive Study dr. Nadia Amin Hasan
II. Exclamation in English and Arabic
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II. 1. Exclamation in English 1-Prototypical or matrix exclamatives: The basic form of an exclamative 'is marked by an initial exclamative phrase containing how or what'. They are called in the literature prototypical, matrix or proposition exclamatives. Huddleston & Pullman (2005: 168) state that they may function as subject or non-subject as in the following examples: What unpleasant people work in this restaurant? How clever you are! They may also be main or subordinate clauses as in the following examples: How very kind you are! I told them how very kind you are! (Huddleston & Pullman 2005: 180) 2- Interrogative exclamatives: When uttering an exclamative, an interrogative clause may be used as in the following: Isn‟t she beautiful! (Rosengren 1997 qtd. in Bijar,2002: 9) International journal of Science Commerce and Humanities Volume No 2 No 2 February 2014 179 In the example above the speaker expresses his/her feelings concerning the fact that the female in question is not only beautiful, but beautiful to a high degree on the scale of beauty (unless it is uttered ironically) (Bijar,2002: 9) Some wh-questions (called by Rett (2008: 613) Inversion exclamatives have the force of an exclamative particularly when intensified by some adverbs. Svartvik & Leech (1985) state that 'You can intensify the emotive force of a wh- question by adding some adverbs like ever, on earth etc. to the wh- word. They cite the following examples: How ever did he escape? {I just can't imagine!} Why on earth you didn't tell me? {How silly of you!} What in Heaven's name does he think he's doing? {The idiot!} The utterances as such are all scalar; they all refer to phenomena on high positions on various scales. Also when the subjunctive is combined with inversion may do as exclamations as in Far it be from me! as pointed out by Quirk et al (1985:204). tải về 250.88 Kb. Chia sẻ với bạn bè của bạn:
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