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Summary: exclamations/interjections
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| Author: | David Harris | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Pragmatics
Semantics Syntax |
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| Summary: |
Many thanks to those who responded to my exclamations/interjections query. The responses I received appear below. In addition, I got an interesting reference to an on-line Esperanto site which discusses several aspects of exclamations and interjections as used in "the universal language". That URL is: http://purl.oclc.org/NET/pmeg and the information can be found under Ekkrioj and Interjektoj. Thanks again for your help, David Harris Washington, DC - ------------------------------------ I have no scholarly input here, but it occurs to me that Spanish has "Eh?, "Ah?, "Oh?, -Uy!, -Ay!, -Cataplon! ('Kerplunk'), -Aj~! -Pas pas! (sound of a slap) etc. etc. But it does not seem to have a large vocabulary of the type used in comic books like Squish, Varoom, etc.; Spanish versions of English comics invent silly items like -Esquish! And it is difficult to translate things like 'my car has a ...' ping / clunk / screech etc. One tends to say 'makes a funny noise' more often than is necessary in English. I suspect that you will find lots of languages have such words in big quantities. When you get all you work done, I hope you will make a report to all of us. Thanks. Karl (Karl Reinhardt [remy@hal-pc.org]) - ------------------------------------ Dear David, If you already have not done it, you might do well by looking into the volume 18 of Journal of Pragmatics (1992) which was a special number about interjections (exclamations). There are many interesting papers dealing with attempts to classification, semantic analysis of interjections, and so on. Best regards - Jan. - Jan K. Lindstrom Assistant Scandinavian Languages and Literature P.O. Box 4 FIN-00014 Helsinki University jan.k.lindstrom@helsinki.fi phone +358-9-191 23007 fax +358-9-191 22506 http://www.nord.helsinki.fi/~jklindst Jan K Lindstrom [jklindst@ling.helsinki.fi] - ------------------------------------ In Slavic languages interjections ( I do not really know the difference between exclamations and interjections) can also be used predicatively, governing complements and expressing diverse tenses. If you are interested and able to read German I can send you a short chapter I wrote on that with examples. Best Dr. Ursula Doleschal Inst. f. Slawische Sprachen WU Wien Augasse 9, A-1090 Wien ++43-1-31336-4115 ursula.doleschal@wu-wien.ac.at - ------------------------------------ Dear David, I have a Home Page about Discourse Markers with a bibliography of more than 500 references. Take a look at http://www.ufpa.br/~megan, maybe you find something of your interest there. FRASER, Bruce classifies interjections as markers. I created the site to help people who do research on Markers in general and on related entities in many different languages . Presently I am wrinting my PhD Dissertation about markers of Portuguese. I decided to create the site right after I started my course because of the difficulty of finding references on the subject. Of course I received information from many friends around the world and still do. That is why the bibliography is so big now. If you know of any titles that are not reffered yet, please let me know, and I will enter them as soon as possible. I have a student who has just started her research on interjections in oral narrative texts of Portuguese (popular stories) and I think that maybe it would be interesting to know a little more about your work. If you are interested, she can tell you a bit about hers, too. She cannot say much right now, but I think she will have a lot to say in the near future. Best Regards, Megan Duque-Estrada Duque Estrada [estrada@amazon.com.br] - ------------------------------------ |
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| LL Issue: | 10.483 | |
| Date Posted: | 01-Apr-1999 | |
| Original Query: | Read original query | |
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