School of Foreign Languages, Yangtze University, Jingzhou, China. Interjections in everyday conversations routinely function as pragmatic markers, especially when they are used to initiate utterances.

Interjections are short words or phrases that express a feeling or emotion instead of a concrete meaning. When used in a sentence, interjections are usually grammatically independent from adjacent ...

Interjections in everyday conversations routinely function as pragmatic markers, especially when they are used to initiate utterances. Taking into consideration the close relationship among pragmatic ...

Listen carefully to a spoken conversation and you’ll notice that the speakers use a lot of little quasi-words—mm-hmm, um, huh? and the like—that don’t convey any information about the topic of the ...

But these little words may be much more important than that. A few linguists now think that far from being detritus, they may be crucial traffic signals to regulate the flow of conversation as well as ...

These contain some examples of vulgar language. Download mp3 (file size 1,3 MB) - right click and choose 'save target as' Get a print version of this page Interjections play an important part in every ...

Listen carefully to a spoken conversation and you’ll notice that the speakers use a lot of little quasi-words — mm-hmm, um, huh? and the like — that don’t convey any information about the topic of the ...

These contain some examples of vulgar language. Download mp3 (file size 1 MB) - right click and choose 'save target as' It's a fact that the French language can sometimes seem tricky or obscure to ...