Interjections at the Heart of Language

IF 3 1区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Mark Dingemanse
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Abstract

Interjections, the words that come between sentences, are easily overlooked and usually treated as peripheral to the language sciences. This review surveys work from disparate disciplines that suggests an inversion of perspective: from interjections as marginal items to interjections at the heart of language. Around one out of every seven turns in conversation is an interjection, and the most common ones are not the involuntary grunts that typically feature in examples; instead, they form a small set of agile and adaptive interactional tools that streamline everyday language use. Continuers like mmhm help people co-construct complex interactional structures, repair initiators like huh? help people calibrate mutual understanding on the fly, and change-of-state tokens like oh display knowledge as it evolves in interaction. Interjections emerge as words that help us talk and think, scaffolding the complexity of language as we know it. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Linguistics, Volume 10 is January 2024. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.
感叹词是语言的核心
句子之间的感叹词很容易被忽视,通常被视为语言科学的边缘。这篇综述调查了来自不同学科的工作,表明了观点的倒置:从作为边缘项目的感叹词到作为语言核心的感叹词。谈话中每七个转折中就有一个是感叹词,最常见的感叹词并不是例句中典型的无意识的咕哝;相反,它们形成了一组灵活的自适应交互工具,简化了日常语言的使用。延续者,比如嗯,帮助人们共同构建复杂的互动结构,修复启动者,比如嗯?帮助人们在飞行中校准相互理解,以及在交互中显示知识的状态变化标记。感叹词作为帮助我们说话和思考的词出现,为我们所知的语言复杂性搭建了框架。预计最终在线出版日期为语言学年度评论,第10卷是2024年1月。修订后的估计数请参阅http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates。
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7.20
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6.20%
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期刊介绍: The Annual Review of Linguistics, in publication since 2015, covers significant developments in the field of linguistics, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and their interfaces. Reviews synthesize advances in linguistic theory, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, language change, biology and evolution of language, typology, as well as applications of linguistics in many domains.
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