This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In Western philosophy and linguistic theory, interjectionsthat is, words like oof, ouch, and bleahhave traditionally been understood to ...

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 ...

One night last week, I explained to a youthful hotel desk clerk that my family and I were interested in playing cards up in our room, then asked her if the hotel had a deck. She made this sound:. Then ...

https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2013.30.5.441 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/mp.2013.30.5.441 Copy URL This paper describes the first laboratory study of an ...

Some parts of speech get lots of attention from language researchers. Nouns and verbs certainly do, and this seems appropriate, given that they refer to the objects and the actions that make up our ...

Dictionary.com, a U.S. online dictionary website, has selected **‘67 (Six Seven)’** as its 2025 Word of the Year. It is a type of interjection used by teenagers to express empathy and continue ...

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 ...