Editing Interjection (section)

=== Primary and secondary interjections ===

Interjections may be subdivided and classified in several ways. A common distinction is based on relations to other word categories: ''primary interjections'' are interjections first and foremost (examples: ''[[wiktionary:oops#English|Oops!]]'', ''Ouch!'', ''Huh?''), while ''secondary interjections'' are words from other categories that have come to be used as interjections by virtue of their original meaning (examples: ''Damn!'', ''Hell!'') <ref>{{cite book|title=Völkerpsychologie: Eine Untersuchung der Entwicklungsgesetze von Sprache, Mythus und Sitte|url=https://archive.org/details/b28118996|last1=Wundt|first1=Wilhelm|date=1904|publisher=Engelmann|edition= 2nd|location=Leipzig}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Wharton|first1=Tim|date=2003|title=Interjections, language, and the 'showing/saying' continuum|url=http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/publications/WPL/00papers/wharton.pdf|journal=Pragmatics & Cognition|volume=11|issue=1|page=175|doi=10.1075/pc.11.1.04wha|access-date=5 June 2015}}</ref><ref name=":0" />  Primary interjections are generally considered to be single words (''Oh!'', ''Wow''!). Secondary interjections can consist of multi-word phrases, or interjectional phrases, (examples: ''sup!'' from ''What's up?'', ''Excuse me!'', ''Oh dear!'', ''Thank God!''), but can also include single-word alarm words (''Help!''), swear and taboo words (''Heavens!''), and other words used to show emotion (''Drats!'').<ref name=":0" /> Although secondary interjections tend to interact more with the words around them, a characteristic of all interjections—whether primary or secondary—is that they can stand alone. For example, one can utter an interjection like ''ouch!'' or ''bloody hell!'' on its own, whereas a different part of speech that may seem similar in function and length, such as the [[Conjunction (grammar)|conjunction]] ''the'', cannot be uttered alone (one cannot just say ''the!'' independently in English).<ref name=":0" />

Further distinctions can be made based on function. Exclamations and curses are primarily about giving expression to feelings or emotions, while response particles and hesitation markers are primarily directed at managing the flow of social interaction.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Ameka|first=Felix K.|date=1992|title=Interjections: The Universal Yet Neglected Part of Speech|journal=[[Journal of Pragmatics]]|volume=18|issue=2–3|pages=101–118|doi=10.1016/0378-2166(92)90048-g|issn=0378-2166|url=http://pubman.mpdl.mpg.de/pubman/item/escidoc:855720/component/escidoc:855719/Ameka_1992_Interjections_J_Pragm_1992.pdf|hdl=11858/00-001M-0000-0011-5356-1|hdl-access=free}}</ref>