Interjections in the contemporary Serbian language: Classification and lexicographic treatment

Rada Stijovic; Ivana Lazic-Konjik; Marina Spasojevic

doi:10.2298/jfi1901037s

Interjections in the contemporary Serbian language: Classification and lexicographic treatment

Juznoslovenski filolog ◽

10.2298/jfi1901037s ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 75 (1) ◽

pp. 37-61

Author(s):

Rada Stijovic ◽

Ivana Lazic-Konjik ◽

Marina Spasojevic

Keyword(s):

Affective State ◽

Language Functions ◽

Baby Talk ◽

Roman Jakobson ◽

Specific Meaning ◽

Descriptive Definition ◽

Sensory Reaction ◽

Language Classification

This paper analyzes interjections based on the material from the SASA Dictionary, as well as from the six-volume and one-volume Serbian dictionaries of Matica Srpska. Moreover, we looked into their grammatical description and classification in Serbian literature. Based on the voluminous excerpted material (over 1000 interjections and words functioning as interjections), we refined the classification by adding new types of interjections. The said addition is founded upon the concept of language functions by Roman Jakobson. In our classification, apart from the expressive, imperative and onomatopoeic interjections, they can also be communicative (singled out of the imperative ones) (e.g. ej, alo, oj), poetic-folk (e.g. op, opa, salaj; asa, kasa) and metalinguistic (e.g. bla-bla, su-su). All of these types are further categorized into subtypes. Expressive interjections now include a subgroup of gradual/intensifying interjections (e.g. ihaj, uha), and communicative ones contain a subtype used in communication with children - when putting them to sleep, using baby talk, etc. (e.g. nina-nana, nuna). In the paper we recommend the following models of defining interjections: for expressive interjections: (interj./interjection) ?for expressing / declaring / emphasizing? + N in gen. (denoting a feeling, affective state, mood, emotional or sensory reaction to the outside world, attitude, etc.); for communicative interjections: (interj./ interjection) ?for + verbal N in acc.? (calling somebody and responding to the call, addressing, maintaining communication, baby talk); for imperative interjections: (interj./ interjection) ?used + V? (to lure, urge, drive, spur, call (mostly animals)) or: (interj./ interjection) ?for + verbal N in acc.? (driving, luring, spurring (mostly animals)); for onomatopoeic interjections: (interj./interjection) ?for imitating (more rarely mimicking) + N in gen.? or ?used for imitating? + N in nom.? (used for naming the auditive phenomenon that is imitated); for metalinguistic interjections, the models of definitions recommended for onomatopoeias can be applied; for poetic-folk interjections a descriptive definition is used: ?without specific meaning (in song refrains, often for metrical purposes; in games, chants, riddles, incantations, curses, etc.)?.

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Tata Bahasa Fungsional (Functional Grammar)

10.31219/osf.io/a4qmv ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Felta Lafamane

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Natural Language ◽

Sentence Structure ◽

Functional Grammar ◽

Functional Linguistics ◽

Language Functions ◽

Language Structure ◽

Structural Linguistics ◽

Roman Jakobson

Abstract Functionalism in the study of linguistics is the influence of several understandings in science such as anthropology, sociology and psychology. The understanding that surrounds the emergence of functionalism as its root is structuralist although there are different opinions about this. Functional linguistics pioneered by Roman Jakobson and Andre Martinet, his presence is very meaningful in an effort to bridge the gap between structural linguistics of America and Europe. Functionalism is a movement in linguistics that seeks to explain the phenomenon of language with all its manifestations and assumes that the mechanism of language is explained by the consequences that follow from the mechanism itself. In general functional grammar is a theory that attempts to explain the natural language structure in terms of functionality. The development of TBF theories must meet three standards: Typological sufficiency, pragmatic sufficiency, psychological sufficiency. In TBF there are three levels of functions that are of concern, namely: Semantic Functions (Actors, Patients, Recipients, etc.). Syntactic Functions (Subject, predicate and Object). Pragmatic Functions (Themes and Tails, Topics and Focus). Then the application of language functions according to Jakobson can be applied in discourse analysis in the form of texts and non-texts. The application of functional flow in Indonesian is not entirely acceptable. In addition to the different language concepts, it is also difficult to find an equivalent term in Indonesian. However, this flow is very influential in the development of Indonesian language grammar.Keyword: grammar, functional, sentence structure

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Krystyny Pisarkowej odkrywanie Malinowskiego

LingVaria ◽

10.12797/lv.16.2021.32.17 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (2(32)) ◽

pp. 216-228

Author(s):

Jerzy Bartmiński ◽

Stanisława Niebrzegowska-Bartmińska

Keyword(s):

Word Meaning ◽

Precise Description ◽

Explicit Formulation ◽

Language Functions ◽

Roman Jakobson ◽

Pragmatic Aspect

Krystyna Pisarkowa’s Discovering of Malinowski The article is concerned with the two-volume publication Językoznawstwo Bronisława Malinowskiego [Bronisław Malinowski’s Linguistics], edited by Krystyna Pisarek. Its first volume contains the editor’s thorough analysis of the linguistic achievements of this Polish-born British anthropologist, while the second volume includes translations of Malinowski’s works and a dictionary of the Kiriwina language. The linguistic importance of Malinowski’s works had been underestimated: his articles “Classificatory Particles in the Language of Kiriwina” (1920) and “The Problem of Meaning in Primitive Languages” (1923) were not included in the thirteen-volume collection of his writings (Dzieła [Works]). Pisarkowa, in turn, does recognize Malinowski’s contribution to linguistics and considers the following to be his unique achievements: (1) the discovery of the phatic function of speech (adopted by Roman Jakobson in his classification of language functions); (2) an explicit formulation of the principle of contextualism and the pragmatic aspect of word meaning; and (3) a precise description of the Kiriwina system of classificatory particles.

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A Validation Study of the Elementary and Advanced Screening Tests of the Clinical Evaluation of Language Functions (CELF)

Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools ◽

10.1044/0161-1461.1404.215 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 14 (4) ◽

pp. 215-222 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Sol Ribner ◽

Laurence Becker ◽

Sid Marks ◽

Paul Kahn ◽

Fred Wolfson

Keyword(s):

Clinical Evaluation ◽

Validation Study ◽

Screening Tests ◽

Language Functions

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A Comparison of Four Adolescent Language Tests

Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools ◽

10.1044/0161-1461.1803.250 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 18 (3) ◽

pp. 250-266 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

R. Jane Lieberman ◽

Ann Marie C. Heffron ◽

Stephanie J. West ◽

Edward C. Hutchinson ◽

Thomas W. Swem

Keyword(s):

Test Performance ◽

Sixth Grade ◽

Significant Discrepancy ◽

Language Impaired ◽

Language Functions ◽

Language Tests ◽

Significant Difference ◽

Sixth Grade Students ◽

Overall Performance ◽

Selection Of

Four recently developed adolescent language tests, the Fullerton Test for Adolescents (FLTA), the Test of Adolescent Language (TOAL), the Clinical Evaluation of Language Functions (CELF), and the Screening Test of Adolescent Language (STAL), were compared to determine: (a) whether they measured the same language skills (content) in the same way (procedures); and (b) whether students performed similarly on each of the tests. First, respective manuals were reviewed to compare selection of subtest content areas and subtest procedures. Then, each of the tests was administered according to standardized procedures to 30 unselected sixth-grade students. Despite apparent differences in test content and procedures, there was no significant difference in students' performance on three of the four tests, and correlations among test performance were moderate to high. A comparison of the pass/fail rates for overall performance on the tests, however, revealed a significant discrepancy between the proportions of students identified in need of further evaluation on the STAL (20%) and the proportion diagnosed as language impaired on the three diagnostic tests (60-73%). Clinical implications are discussed.

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Associations Between Self-Report of Emotional State and the EEG Patterns in Affective Disorders Patients

Journal of Psychophysiology ◽

10.1027/0269-8803/a000004 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 24 (1) ◽

pp. 33-40 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Miroslaw Wyczesany ◽

Jan Kaiser ◽

Anton M. L. Coenen

Keyword(s):

State Energy ◽

Emotional State ◽

Spectral Power ◽

Bipolar Affective Disorder ◽

Affective State ◽

Manic Episode ◽

High Energy ◽

Self Report ◽

Major Depressive ◽

High Tension

The study determines the associations between self-report of ongoing emotional state and EEG patterns. A group of 31 hospitalized patients were enrolled with three types of diagnosis: major depressive disorder, manic episode of bipolar affective disorder, and nonaffective patients. The Thayer ADACL checklist, which yields two subjective dimensions, was used for the assessment of affective state: Energy Tiredness (ET) and Tension Calmness (TC). Quantitative analysis of EEG was based on EEG spectral power and laterality coefficient (LC). Only the ET scale showed relationships with the laterality coefficient. The high-energy group showed right shift of activity in frontocentral and posterior areas visible in alpha and beta range, respectively. No effect of ET estimation on prefrontal asymmetry was observed. For the TC scale, an estimation of high tension was related to right prefrontal dominance and right posterior activation in beta1 band. Also, decrease of alpha2 power together with increase of beta2 power was observed over the entire scalp.

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Emotional Reactivity to Visual Content as Revealed by ERP Component Clustering

Journal of Psychophysiology ◽

10.1027/0269-8803/a000145 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 29 (4) ◽

pp. 135-146 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Miroslaw Wyczesany ◽

Szczepan J. Grzybowski ◽

Jan Kaiser

Keyword(s):

Emotional Reactivity ◽

Brain Activity ◽

Affective State ◽

Occipital Lobe ◽

Stimulus Onset ◽

Emotional States ◽

Neural Basis ◽

Temporoparietal Junction ◽

The Right ◽

The Impact

Abstract. In the study, the neural basis of emotional reactivity was investigated. Reactivity was operationalized as the impact of emotional pictures on the self-reported ongoing affective state. It was used to divide the subjects into high- and low-responders groups. Independent sources of brain activity were identified, localized with the DIPFIT method, and clustered across subjects to analyse the visual evoked potentials to affective pictures. Four of the identified clusters revealed effects of reactivity. The earliest two started about 120 ms from the stimulus onset and were located in the occipital lobe and the right temporoparietal junction. Another two with a latency of 200 ms were found in the orbitofrontal and the right dorsolateral cortices. Additionally, differences in pre-stimulus alpha level over the visual cortex were observed between the groups. The attentional modulation of perceptual processes is proposed as an early source of emotional reactivity, which forms an automatic mechanism of affective control. The role of top-down processes in affective appraisal and, finally, the experience of ongoing emotional states is also discussed.

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