Emotions are found to be frequently involved in the exclamative sentences. This paper aims to examine the interaction between exclamative sentences and emotions in Chinese social media. We propose that exclamative sentences can express all kinds of emotions besides surprise. Fear emotion is mostly expressed in exclamative sentences. Lexical features, structural features and discourse features are analyzed to reveal a full picture of linguistic cues in emotion expressions in exclamative sentences. We believe that this study could provide a new approach for the study of sentence types in Mandarin Chinese, which is also crucial for people to understand the expressions of human emotions.
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