TY - JOUR
T1 - The semantics of interjections
T2 - An experimental study with natural semantic metalanguage
AU - Gladkova, Anna Nikolaevna
AU - Vanhatalo, Ulla
AU - Goddard, Cliff
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The paper reports the results of a pilot experimental study aimed at evaluating natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) explications of English interjections. It proposes a novel online survey technique to test NSM explications with language speakers. The survey tested recently developed semantic explications of selected English interjections as published in Goddard (2014a): wow, gosh, gee, yikes ("surprise" group) and yuck, ugh ("disgust" group). The results provide overall support for the proposed explications and indicate directions for their further development. It is interesting that respondents' preexisting knowledge of NSM and other background variables (age, gender, being a native speaker, or studying linguistics) were shown to have little influence on the test results.
AB - The paper reports the results of a pilot experimental study aimed at evaluating natural semantic metalanguage (NSM) explications of English interjections. It proposes a novel online survey technique to test NSM explications with language speakers. The survey tested recently developed semantic explications of selected English interjections as published in Goddard (2014a): wow, gosh, gee, yikes ("surprise" group) and yuck, ugh ("disgust" group). The results provide overall support for the proposed explications and indicate directions for their further development. It is interesting that respondents' preexisting knowledge of NSM and other background variables (age, gender, being a native speaker, or studying linguistics) were shown to have little influence on the test results.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0142716415000260
DO - 10.1017/S0142716415000260
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84937232198
SN - 0142-7164
VL - 37
SP - 841
EP - 865
JO - Applied Psycholinguistics
JF - Applied Psycholinguistics
IS - 4
ER -