This study is mainly based on the examination of the two semantic values of the combination tout + Adj in Modern French, that is: the so-called intensive value , as in tout jeune (= 'extremely young'), and the extensive one, as in tout nu (= 'entirely naked'). A thorough examination of both syntactic and semantic properties of these constructions reveals a common basic value, also to be found among enunciative adverbs and exclamatives. The main claim of this article is there exists a pragma-semantic category of markers of the speaker’s attitudes, which includes intensifiers like tout , enunciative adverbs like franchement , exclamatives, and very likely some connectives, and which can be identified on the basis of several specific properties.