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 ...

Conjunctions and interjections are brief words we use in sentences. There are a few differences between conjunctions and interjections, especially in terms of their function. The main difference is ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Interjections in everyday conversations routinely function as pragmatic markers, especially when they are used to initiate utterances. In turn-initial position, the overall incidence of interjections ...

Host Ira Flatow is joined by reporter Bob Holmes to talk about his coverage of the role of interjections in conversation. This story was originally published in Knowable Magazine. But these little ...