Interjection in language, speech and communicative space

Abstract

The article discusses the nature of interjections in terms of contrasting language, speech, and communication as interrelated but not identical concepts. It describes the relationship between interjection and word and sentence, as well as with the language-speech dichotomy. The object of the study is the so-called primitive interjections such as Ah! Oy! Eh!, etc. They are the result of primary conceptualization and are reflected at the level of ordinary consciousness of native speakers as basic emotions. Interjections like like "Batushki!" "My God!" and so on, are defined as the result of secondary conceptualization, they have a functional character and turn out to be the result of hybridity or transitivity in language. The subject of the description is the connection of primitive interjections with words and utterances, and the purpose is to comprehend their categorical features based on logical-analytical, descriptive and contextual methods. We present an unconventional view of the interjection as a special structural-semantic type of communicative words that are characterized by both words and utterances and are not included in the system of parts of speech of the Russian language. In terms of communication, they are situationally dependent exclamatory indivisible utterances as part of a speech act that introduce emotional information into a discourse, or a structural and semantic type of sentence.