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Publication details [#31969]

Ameka, Felix K. 1992. The meaning of phatic and conative interjections. Journal of Pragmatics 18 (2-3) : 245–271.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

interjection | meaning | pragmatics | semantics2

Language as a subject

Ewe

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper examines the meanings of conative/volitive and phatic interjections in Ewe, as well as the differences and similarities between the semantic structures of interjections on the one hand and formulaic words on the other.