Publications
Publication details [#31968]
Evans, Nicholas. 1992. Wanjh! bonj! nja!': Sequential organization and social deixis in Mayali interjections. Journal of Pragmatics 18 (2-3) : 225–244.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
This article investigates the semantics and pragmatics of a number of interjections in Mayali, a language of Australian Arnhem Land, using definitions based on Natural Semantic Metalanguage to elucidate the complex relations between interjections' lexical meanings and their interpretation in context.