9. Interjections

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface to the handbook series v
3. Table of contents ix
4. Introducing the pragmatics of society 1
5. I. Social, regional and situational factors
6. 1. Doing age and ageing: language, discourse and social interaction 31
7. 2. Gender identities and discourse 53
8. 3. Regional pragmatic variation 79
9. 4. Pragmatics in multilingual language situations 115
10. II. The language system and pragmalinguistic features
11. 5. Speech and writing: linguistic styles enabled by the technology of literacy 137
12. 6. Phonetics and the management of talk-in-interaction 153
13. 7. Prosody and pragmatic effects 181
14. III. Pragmatic markers and the notion of speaker attitude
15. 8. Pragmatic markers in a sociopragmatic perspective 217
16. 9. Interjections 243
17. 10. Vagueness and hedging 293
18. IV. Different interpretational levels – speech acts, politeness and beyond
19. 11. Requests and orders: a cross-linguistic study of their linguistic construction and interactional organization 321
20. 12. Appreciatory sounds and expressions of embodied pleasure used as compliments 361
21. 13. Politeness and impoliteness 393
22. 14. Honorifics and address terms 439
23. V. Sequential patterns and activities
24. 15. Social and pragmatic variation in the sequential organization of talk 473
25. 16. Turn-taking in conversation 501
26. 17. Pauses and hesitations 537
27. VI. Pragmatics and the notion of culture
28. 18. Cultural variation in language use 571
29. 19. Intercultural rhetoric and language of healthcare 593
30. VII. Pragmatics and the larger societal context
31. 20. Global and intercultural communication 607
32. 21. Critical Discourse Analysis: Overview, challenges, and perspectives 627
33. 22. Pragmatics, linguistic anthropology and history 651
34. About the authors 689
35. Author index 695
36. Subject index 701