Critically analyse the main theories on interjections like 'Huh!', 'Ah!', 'Ha!', etc. How would you decide whether these were part of the language, to be dealt with in the grammar? What alternatives might there be? Interjections are dealt with in the semantic area of linguistics. They are an important aspect that is worth considering in regards to semantics due to the fact that they are so commonly used, differing from language to …showed first 75 words of 4040 total…

…showed last 75 words of 4040 total…promising theory appears to be the combination of procedural and paralinguistic evidence proposed by Wharton. Word count:4090 Bibliography: ·Ameka, F., 'Interjections: the universal yet neglected part of the speech.' in Journal of Pragmatics, 18, 1992 ·Goffman, E., Forms of Talk, Oxford: Blakewell, 1981, ·Wharton, T. 'Interjections, language and the 'showing'/'saying' continuum' in UCL Working Papers in Linguistics 12, 2000 ·Wierzbicka, A. 'The Semantics of interjection'. In Journal of Pragmatics, 18, 1992 ·Wilson, D., Discourse Markers, social and cognitive approaches, Lecture, 1994