The landscape of exclamations: brief musings on emotive language

In this response, we clarify some of the main issues that kept surfacing in the seven commentaries. We acknowledge and highlight the significance of the diversity of linguistic means and syntactic configurations that can be used for what has been traditionally called exclamation, and we also address the issue of diverging judgments and introspective data. Finally, we look at the topic from a broader perspective, concluding our discussion with a new proposal for interjections such as ouch! and wow! as super-linguistic in character, a kind of verbal emoji.