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Georges Kleiber: Semiotics of Interjection The aim of this paper is to draw some new spécifie aspects of the interjections semiotic functions. This analysis will allow us to comprehend in a better way the type of category we are dealing with. Within this perspective, our investigation is based on the semiotic comparison between interjections and onomatopoeia. We suggest that two levels of formation exist and that the distinction operated between them will reveal the semiotic specificity of this enigmatic sign -«ce canard boiteux... des signes» -that interjection is.
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Liana Pop: Can we speak about an interjectional pragmatic mode? A case study of Romanian. In this article, we support two hypothèses: the first one states that languages are more or less " interjectional", while the second one states that, compared to French, Romanian is more interjectional, not only from the point of view of the System, but also from the point of view of the use. Thèse two hypothèses, originally based on empirical observation, are now supported by précise linguistic arguments: the first one is a study of the Romanian équivalents of a French interjection (eh bien I), and the second one is a more gênerai contrastive approach to interjectional words based on the translation of a spoken Romanian corpus into French.
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Mariana Tutescu: The interjection modality, axiological investment and grammaticalization. The case of the Romanian interjections ZAU et VAI Interjection is conceived in this paper as an epistemic modaliser whose function on the utterance level is that of an évaluation marker. The interjection as a linguistic sign is at the same time an index, an icon and a symbol. Describing the uses of the Romanian interjections VAI < vae lat. and ZÀU > Deus lat, the author conjectures that thèse interjectional modalisers undergo a grammaticalization based upon generalized delocutivity and axiological investment. The argument focusses on the grammaticalization of VAI, whose graduai conversion from exophrastic to endophrastic use relies on seven steps.
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Marcela Swiatkowska: Interjection. Between deixis and anaphora This paper deals with the problem of the construction of the meaning of interjection. This category of words is usually described as contextually dépendent. We claim that there are some semantic values in the interjection which décide about the choice the speaker is making. We refer to two notions deixis and anaphora in order to reveal what is the spécifie contribution of each interjection (deictic élément), what can be conventional and specifically mentorized, and what dépends on the context. We want to show that inteijections are indexical expressions, but that it is necessary. in order to identity other semantic constituents, to use the information given by the interpretive paraphrases, the previous context or the stereotyped knowledge.
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Marie-Luce Demonet: Eh! Hé!: simulating orality at the time of the Renaissance The French interjections hé and eh concern not only the oral expression of émotions, but also their transcription. They east doubt on universality, since the grammarians of vernacular languages have to admit that they are new, and that they do not correspond with Latin of Greek interjections. Would the Frenchman be exposed to peculiar émotions, alien to other nations? Do " animal spirits" overcome him, more eagerly than they do into his European neighbours? Those aspirated interjections seem to corne out of the biological nature of man, whereas it is influenced by the inhabited " climates" and by the collective or the individual tempérament.
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Ascension Sierra Soriano: Interjections emanating from verbs of movment in the imperative mood: a French-Spanish comparated study In this paper, we analyse and compare the interjections proceeding from movement verbs in imperative: «allez, allons» in French and <> anda. venga. vamos, vaya» in Spanish. The aim is to show the use and the process of grammaticalisation of thèse interjections in both languages. We also demonstrate that they aren't simple discursive particles within lexical meaning seeing that it's their polysemy that créâtes most of the problems in translation. The contrastive analyse brings supplementary data to a study which would be undoubtedly unfinished if it would be doue in only one language.
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Pierre Rézeau: Interjections accompanied by a gesture: in favour of a lexicographical description Treated as the poor parent of linguistic studies, the interjection has hardly benefited from a better status with lexicographers. We shall try to compensate for this by looking a spécifie area of language: that of the interjection accompanied by a gesture. Example of this: such as «plouf plouf» are particularly fréquent in nursery rhymes but can of course be found elsewhere, as the examples «chut» and «dehors» illustrate.
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Formes et fonctions structurantes. A propos de quelques interjections en ancien et en moyen francais
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Laurence Rosier: Interjection and the cybergenres In this paper, we study the interjection in some numeric discourse. The work on this kind of numeric corpus obliges to interrogate about the borders between onomatopoeia and interjection. In the internet discourse, it is less the rôle of expressive " super-enounciation" of the interjection that is exploited (this raie being held by the neographemes, the onomatopoeias and the smileys, thèse ones not yet used at the most of their potential meaning) than its rôle of first slice or splint of conversation. The confrontation of new practices of writing thus obliges to create functional catégories which transform the names as onomatopoeias (by the graphie déformations who are supposed imitate a certain intonation) or transform them as interjections (by marking the key-moments of interactional starts again). So certain papers of the internet are less a written orality than a real living writing.