L’INTERJECTION ET SA VALEUR EXPRESSIVE EN ROUMAIN
The Interjection and Its Expressive Value in Romanian

Summary/Abstract: Our paper investigates the status of interjection in the morphological system of the Romanian language, focusing on the duality between its nature as a part of speech, traditionally considered inflexible, and its unlimited capacity to generate expressiveness. The study makes an inventory of the classes of interjections (primary, onomatopoeias and those resulting from conversion) and analyses the pragmatic mechanisms through which they externalize affective states or imitate sound from the reality. A special attention is paid to the stylistic value of interjection at the level of the literary text, where it becomes an essential tool for simulating orality and dynamic language. At the same time, our approach proposes a current perspective on the way in which interjection adapts to contemporary digital communication, becoming a pillar of virtual pragmalinguistics.

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