Abstract
Interjections have been studied for all periods in the history of English, ranging from the study of Old English
exclamations such as
hwaet
(
Brinton 2017
) to the pragmatic functions
of ...forms such as
oops
in Present Day English (
Lutzky and Kehoe 2017
).
The Early Modern English (EModE) period represents a turning point as it witnessed an increase in dialogic and speech-related text
types, including drama comedy and trial proceedings. Nevertheless, despite recent advances in the compilation and especially the
sociopragmatic annotation of corpora, EModE pragmatic markers have not been studied extensively over the last decade. This article
addresses this gap by offering an investigation into the sociopragmatic nature of interjections in EModE drama comedy. It is based
on the sociopragmatically annotated Drama Corpus which includes a total of 242,561 words from the period 1500 to 1760. Taking a
data-driven, form-to-function mapping approach, this study explores the use of interjections in the Drama Corpus
with a focus on their distribution according to sociopragmatic variables. The aim of this study is to contribute to reaching a
more comprehensive understanding of pragmatic marker use in EModE.
Many internet users actively participate and share their views using social networks. Their behavior is sometimes unpredictable; it could be polite or impolite. This study aims to investigate ...impoliteness in the comment section of the Al-Jazeera Arabic news website to uncover the types of impolite acts which commenters engage in online, and expose conventionalized and non-conventionalized impoliteness triggers. It also seeks to explore the influence of computer-mediated contextual factors, such as anonymity and synchronicity on impoliteness. The study adopts Neurauter-Kessels’ framework (2011) to identify the types of face attacks and Culpeper’s bottom-up model (2011, 2016) of impoliteness triggers to classify impolite acts. The analysis shows that commenters engage in FTAs that are targeting the writers. The most frequent attack is the lack of balance, wholeness, fairness, and objectivity and the least frequent is being out of touch or having a lack of interaction with the audience. Commenters also employ both conventionalized and non-conventionalized impoliteness formulas in their face-attacks. Findings indicate that there are some distinctive features of Arabic impoliteness discourse, such as the use of colloquialisms, proverbs and idioms, religious expressions and interjections. The analysis also reveals that anonymity and asynchronicity are significant in accounting for the manifestation of impoliteness.
This paper examines the manifestation of individual style through the lens of a specific language category: the interjection. The analysis considers how interjections are used as a resource in the ...dramatic dialogue of three Restoration playwrights: Aphra Behn, John Dryden and Thomas D’Urfey, and how their preferences and practices of use compare to previously identified trends in the history of English. Using the concept of the repertoire as a frame for situated language use, the paper examines how genre, time, and characterisation shape the selection and frequency of interjections in the plays of each author. Corpus linguistic methods are used to provide a quantitative and qualitative overview of each author’s interjection repertoire. The results suggest that whilst genre, time, and characterisation are influential in shaping the selection and implementation of interjection forms, the choice of expressive language in dramatic contexts is also distinctive and coherent at an authorial level.
In her newest groundbreaking book, however, Virginia Burrus complicates this narrative by weaving together vast expanses of philosophy, gender theory, and object-oriented ontology to unearth the ...unfamiliarity of early Christianity's relationship to the animate world. Perhaps the greatest strength of this structure lies in the "interludes," more free-style interjections that sometimes act as summary, other times as modern anecdote, but which always tie the reader intimately to the material, reminding us that we, like early Christians before us, are not separate from the biological community we inhabit. Part I, which takes John Sallis as its guide, focuses on the multifaceted manifestations of Plato's khora as a third cause that haunts the creation of the universe. Since khora constitutes the very "power and possibility of materialization," Burrus postulates that, for early Christian and Jewish authors, thinking about god could not be divorced from thinking ecologically (72).
The interjection kyoo/kaw is used in the English and French of Cajun heritage speakers in Louisiana to express surprise and has not been previously documented. Anecdotally, Cajuns and non-Cajuns ...alike comment that it sounds “weird,” as if the word is “not English.” A survey confirms that the interjection is perceived as atypical sounding when compared to mainstream English words, even more so for the palatalized pronunciation variant (kyoo) than the nonpalatalized variant (kaw). The authors hypothesize that this perception could stem from acoustic characteristics of the interjection consistent with linguistic identity markers in Cajun speakers, attributable to Cajun French influence or to the Cajun English vernacular. Acoustic analyses show that the interjection-initial/k/is not unaspirated, its vowel is not nasalized, and it has spectral quality similar to/O/in mainstream English words. These results suggest the perception of anomalous sounds in this interjection may not be attributed to acoustic characteristics indicative of French influence. An alternative explanation to the acoustic-phonetic characteristics of kyoo/kaw lies in social representations of Cajun English in a historically bilingual and multidialectal community, where perceived oddness of a nonstandard linguistic expression can be easily attributed to the influence of another language.
This article presents the advances made for the construction of the 'Annotated and Parsed Audible Corpus of Spoken Rural Spanish'. The methodology for building a treebank to evaluate the accuracy of ...state-of-the-art part of speech taggers: spaCy, Stanza and UDPipe is presented. It is shown that, when oral data is tagged the accuracy is 0.90-0.93; none of the regional varieties presents a significant difference in accuracy over the others. Regarding the grammatical categories, interjections, proper nouns, adjectives, and auxiliaries have the lowest F value. Finally, some examples of the polyfunctionality of some grammatical categories and the fuzzy boundaries between them are discussed, like the passive participle, and the ambiguity between adverbs and subordinate conjunctions that might affect accuracy.
No presente texto, Anna Livia analisa, por meio do olhar da Linguística Queer e o conceito de comunidades de prática, anúncios pessoais divulgados na revista Lesbia, uma publicação mensal francesa ...voltada para o público lésbico. Num primeiro momento, a autora examina como as anunciantes constroem discursivamente sua parceira perfeita, focando em quais orientações sexuais e estilizações de gênero são excluídas e, em especial, nos preconceitos reproduzidos contra lésbicas "caminhoneiras". Depois, analisa também como a linguagem das notas da editora, inseridas como interjeições diretamente dentro dos anúncios, reforçam ou contestam os valores inerentes nos textos e questionam, em particular, certas exclusões e preconceitos.
Interjections in Tjwao Andrason, Alexander; Anne-Maria Fehn; Phiri, Admire
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies,
06/2020, Volume:
83, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
The present paper provides a systematic description of interjections in a moribund Eastern Kalahari Khoe language – Tjwao. After analysing original evidence within a prototype-driven approach, the ...authors conclude the following: (a) in Tjwao, the interjectional lexical class constitutes an internally diverse category confined between the canonical centre and a non-prototypical periphery; and (b) primary emotive interjections exhibit the highest degree of canonicity and extra-systematicity, while the canonicity and extra-systematicity of secondary phatic interjections is lowest.
Abstract
This study documents onomatopoeia of laughter in Chinese comics and their Japanese translations, by comparing the translation of Chinese laughter onomatopoeia into Japanese laughter ...onomatopoeia and then by observing and analyzing the sentence-ending particle. The study ultimately seeks to examine the similarities and differences between two languages as their laughter onomatopoeia discourse markers. The results indicate that the onomatopoeia of laughter appears in both languages to describe social and aggressive laughter through discourse markers that advance the flow of conversation. In Chinese face threatening contexts, speakers generally use the onomatopoeia of laughter, where in the Japanese context, speakers largely resort to using a sentence-ending particle, and in the process to alleviate embarrassment.
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