Exclamations as multi-dimensional intersubjective items

International audienceThis article is an introduction to the special issue of the Revue de Sémantique et Pragmatique on Exclamation and Intersubjectivity. It points out that Exclamations were misleadingly restricted to the ego-area. They are actually involved in dialogs. They are context-sensitive and even include information transmission as one of their felicity conditions. Cross-linguistic data show that they play a particularly important role in situations of negotiation and argumentation