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Interjections in English:An Interlingual Pragmatic Study | ||
| Journal of Al-qadisiya in arts and educational sciense | ||
| Article 1, Volume 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 27-38 PDF (0 K) | ||
| Author | ||
| Sami Basheer Matrood | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The present study tackles the pragmatic significance of teaching ESL or EFL learners how to use interjections appropriately according to the context they find themselves in. It falls into four sections where the first of which sheds light upon "interjection' a linguistic forms manifesting emotions or feelings when speakers encounter events that cause pain or surprise or any other unexpected feelings, while the second is to compare interjection with onomatopoeia imitating the natural sound of an event to transform certain communicative values, the third of which is to deal with the discoursal functions of interjections for being context-sensitive or dependent as a sort of communicative adjacent pairs, and the last one focuses on the importance of learning how to use and respond to others' use of interjection in interaction. Finally the conclusion sums up the findings of the study considering teaching interjections is a way to contextualize language that aims at having a situationally competent ESL or EFL speakers | ||
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