Different interjections can send slightly different signals. Consider, for example, one person describing to another how to build a piece of IKEA furniture, says Allison Nguyen, a psycholinguist ...

This paper investigates ideophones and interjections, and their correlation with sound symbolism, in Seediq, an Austronesian language spoken in central and eastern Taiwan. Ideophones are categorized ...

Interjections, he says, don’t just facilitate our conversations. In negotiating points of view and grounding, they’re also how language talks about talking.

Other interjections serve as what some linguists call “continuers,” such as mm-hmm —signals from the listener that they’re paying attention and the speaker should keep going. Once again, the form of ...

Interjections, he says, don’t just facilitate our conversations. In negotiating points of view and grounding, they’re also how language talks about talking.

Interjections, he says, don’t just facilitate our conversations. In negotiating points of view and grounding, they’re also how language talks about talking.

So interjections are part of the protocol, and they're metadata. It's time we write scientific papers with emojis and informal language. Put the author's emotions into facts.

Interjections are very useful indeed! Finn: They might sound different though in other languages – people might make a sound for a sudden pain other than 'ouch!'. In Chinese it's… Feifei: 哎呀！ Finn: ...

Interjections are very useful indeed! Finn: Though they might sound different in other languages - people might make a sound for a sudden pain other than 'ouch!', but I think the meaning would be ...

Interjections, he says, don’t just facilitate our conversations. In negotiating points of view and grounding, they’re also how language talks about talking.