@article{Mocini_2014, title={Expressing Surprise A Cross-Linguistic Description of Mirativity}, url={https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/4049}, DOI={10.13130/2035-7680/4049}, abstractNote={<p>As I have argued elsewhere (Mocini 2009; 2011; 2013), emotions play a decisive role in<br />promotional discourse. The power of logical argument may not be sufficient to<br />convince customers. For this reason, writers or speakers usually appeal to the<br />audience’s emotional response to achieve persuasion. Ekman (1999) claims that<br />surprise is one of the basic universal emotions, and only the basic emotions are the<br />real emotions.1 Following DeLancey (1997; 2001) and other researchers (Dickinson<br />2000; Aikhenvald 2004; Peterson 2010, 2013), we use the term mirativity to refer to the<br />semantic category employed to mark the fact that some information is new or<br />surprising.</p>}, number={11}, journal={Altre Modernità}, author={Mocini, Renzo}, year={2014}, month={mag.}, pages={136–156} }