This study is aimed to answer the questions such as: whether the culture background in Vietnam
and Britain has an impact on the ways people exclaim, whether the features of syntax, of
semantics and of pragmatics in exclamations of the two language are the same
Concerning the scope of this study, exclamations in the two languages are considered in terms
of syntax, of semantics and of pragmatics.
It is necessary to narrow the scope of this writing like that: the exclamations of the two
languages in written forms are mainly based on, but not in the oral ones. Therefore, when
studying the intonation of exclamations, the focus is on the clues of exclamation marks (!)
which appear at the end of exclamations.