Editing Interjection (section)

{{short description|Word or expression used to express an emotion or sentiment}}
An '''interjection''' is a word or expression that occurs as an utterance on its own and expresses a spontaneous feeling, situation or reaction.<ref>{{Cite book| publisher = Holt| last = Bloomfield| first = Leonard| title = Language| url = https://archive.org/details/language0000unse_p0r2| url-access = registration| location = New York| date = 1933}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=A dictionary of linguistics & phonetics|author=Crystal, David|date=2003|publisher=Blackwell Pub|isbn=9780631226642|edition= 5th|location=Malden, MA|oclc=49824714}}</ref> It is a diverse category, with many different types, such as exclamations ''(ouch!'', ''wow!''), curses (''damn!''), greetings (''hey'', ''bye''), response particles (''okay'', ''oh!'', ''m-hm'', ''[[Speech disfluency#Huh_–_the_universal_syllable|huh?]]''), hesitation markers (''uh'', ''er'', ''um''), and other words (''stop'', ''cool''). Due to its diverse nature, the category of interjections partly overlaps with a few other categories like [[profanities]], [[discourse marker]]s, and [[filler (linguistics)|fillers]]. The use and linguistic discussion of interjections can be traced historically through the Greek and Latin Modistae over many centuries.