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The Language of Interjections

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Multimodal Signals: Cognitive and Algorithmic Issues

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The paper presents a theoretical view of interjections. It defines them as holophrastic codified signals, whose meaning corresponds to complete speech acts including a specific performative and propositional content. Interjections are then distinguished from exclamations and onomatopoeias, and some devices are analyzed that characterize them. An overview of the syntactic, lexical and semantic features of interjections is provided, and a typology of Italian interjections is presented.

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Educazione, Università Roma Tre, Via D.Manin 53, 00185, Roma, Italy

    Isabella Poggi

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  1. Department of Psychology, Second University of Naples, and IIASS, Via Pellegrino 19, 84019, Vietri sul Mare (SA), Italy

    Anna Esposito

  2. Department of Computing Science & Mathematics, University of Stirling, FK9 4LA, Stirling, Scotland, UK

    Amir Hussain

  3. Dipartimento di Fisica “E.R. Caianiello”, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy and IIASS, Via S. Allende, 84081, Baronissi (SA), Italy

    Maria Marinaro

  4. Dip. di Ingegneria dell’ Informazione, Seconda Università di Napoli, Via Roma 29, 81031, Aversa (CE), Italy

    Raffaele Martone

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Poggi, I. (2009). The Language of Interjections. In: Esposito, A., Hussain, A., Marinaro, M., Martone, R. (eds) Multimodal Signals: Cognitive and Algorithmic Issues. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5398. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00525-1_17

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