Publications

Publication details [#31970]

Eastman, Carol M. 1992. Swahili interjections: Blurring language-use/gesture-use boundaries. Journal of Pragmatics 18 (2-3) : 273–287.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | gesture | interjection | language use | pragmatics

Language as a subject

Swahili

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

It is argued that interjections in Swahili are part of culturally specific extra-linguistic systems of communication in context, ranging from verbal expressions alone, to verbal expressions accompanied by gesture, to gestures alone used with an interjectional function.