Listen carefully to a spoken conversation and you’ll notice that the speakers use a lot of little quasi-words — mm-hmm, um, huh? and the like — that don’t convey any information about the topic of the ...

If you've ever yelled your feelings – you might have uttered an interjection. If you've ever shouted a forbidden word after dropping a glass jar of pickles – you might have uttered an interjection. If ...

Interjections primarily express emotion — often in a way that doesn’t seem very sophisticated. But Anne Curzan, an English professor at the University of Michigan and regular contributor to the Lingua ...