Another of those deep interjectional "ughs" escaped the chest of the proud Indian.
The Indian gave an involuntary start,--uttered a deep interjectional "Ugh!
Thrown in between other words or phrases; parenthetical; ejaculatory; as, an interjectional remark.
Certain of the natural accompaniments of interjectional speech, such as gestures, grimaces, and gesticulations, are restrained by civilization.
Influenced, no doubt, by the works of some of his friends and relatives on the origin of language, he thought that it had been proved that our words could be derived directly from imitative and interjectional sounds.
Any word taken from Mr. Wedgwood’s Dictionary will show the difference between those who derive words directly from imitative and interjectional sounds, and those who do not.
Another attempt has been made, represented by Professor Noiré, to account for language by means of interjectional cries.
It is a monotonous recitative, broken only by more or less passionate interjectional explosions.
The interjectional refrains which we find to-day among savage tribes are only the relics of those wordless romances which preceded spoken verse in the first stage.
Owny turned on his heel, and was walking away with that air of satisfaction which men so commonly assume after fancying they have said a good thing, when Andy interrupted his retreat by an interjectional "Misther Doyle?
The widow screamed, Tom Durfy swore, and Murtough roared, with some interjectional curses.
Each verse terminates with an interjectional refrain.
The interjectional appendages to this and the following verse are increased.
The rhetorical figure known as aposiopesis, where a sentence is left unfinished and in an interjectional condition, in consequence of some emotion of the mind, is not rare and adds to the obscurity of the wording.
Still this sense has pleased the editors, and they have made "of goodnesse" a precatory and interjectional expression.
An excellent answer to the interjectional theory has been given by Horne Tooke.
The phaeton was driven onwards with the last words, leaving Mrs. Fitchett laughing and shaking her head slowly, with an interjectional "Surely, surely!
Already, as Miss Brooke passed out of the dining-room, opportunity was found for some interjectional "asides.
This, it will be observed, is the largest possible extension of the interjectional theory of the origin of speech.
And the same applies to the so-called interjectional element in word-formation, or the utilization as names of sounds which are naturally expressive of states of human feeling.
But to this all-essential germ, as thus given, I doubt not that the soil of such associations as the interjectional theory has in view must have been of no small importance; for this would naturally help to nourish its semiotic nature.
To me it appears that this is clearly an unanswerable difficulty; and therefore I do not wonder that the so-called interjectional theory of the origin of speech has brought discredit on the whole philosophy of the subject.
The further examination of the forms of speech current amongst peoples of rude culture has not revealed a conspicuous wealth either of imitative or of interjectional sounds.
One school sought the source of the earliest words in imitative sounds of the type of bow-wow; another in interjectional expressions of the type of tut-tut.
It is unnecessary to discuss the claims of the interjectional theory, as it is only a theory, and there are few roots for which we could infer even a remote origin of this nature.
What errors in the construction and punctuation of interjectional phrases are quoted from Fisk, Smith, and Kirkham?
Ingersoll says, "Sometimes a whole phrase is used as an interjection, and we call such interjectional phrases: as, out upon him!
Futility of interjectionaland sound-imitative theories of the origin of speech.
As to the theory itself, it is scarcely more credible than its interjectional counterpart.
He therefore, while continuing the pantomime, kept up a running or interjectional accompaniment in the English language.
As interjectional phrases alone could indicate something of their emotions to each other, so fragmentary sentences alone will convey a faint semblance of the truth to the intelligence of the reader.
He walked fast; he talked aloud to himself in his native tongue, in broken interjectional phrases; occasionally he made use of violent gestures, which were not lessened in their effect by the swaying cape of his cloak.
As he proceeded to translate for Brand's benefit, in interjectional phrases, what this man with the trembling hands and the burning eyes was saying, it was strange to mark the contrast between the two men.
Purísima= interjectional phrase, not the first words of the prayer.
The word =hombre= is one of the commonest interjectional expressions in Spanish, and is constantly used with little or no sense of addressing a particular person; C.
To these gestures let there be added the use of the interjectional cries, such as oh!
When, however, the Englishman and the Australian speak each in his native tongue, only such words as belong to the interjectional and imitative classes will be naturally intelligible, and as it were instinctive to both.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "interjectional" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: episodic; parenthetic; parenthetical
