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Interjections as pragmatic markers

Journal of Pragmatics, 2009
Interjections in everyday talk routinely function as pragmatic markers, initiating utterances and relating them to the foregoing interaction. In turn-initial position, one finds both primary interjections like oh and mhm and secondary interjections like wow and boy.
Neal R Norrick
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