RT Book, Section
T1 Interjections and emotions: the case of 'gosh'
A1 Downing Rothwell, Angela
A1 Martínez Caro, Elena
A2 Mackenzie, J. Lachlan
A2 Alba Juez, Laura
AB Interjections in general can be considered linguistic expressions of emotions and attitudes, constituting complete and self-contained utterances. Though all languages are believed to have ‘emotive interjections’ (Wierzbicka 1999: 276), the literature on interjections and emotions has proved to be sparse, while studies on specific interjections are particularly uncommon. This study investigates the interjection 'gosh', which we propose to analyze as an expletive secondary interjection, originally used in the area of religion as a euphemistic replacement of ‘God’. The religious connection practically severed, 'gosh' can be revealed as non-stigmatised and, in general, positively-valued. It is clearly a mild expletive, with a wide range of emotive, cognitive and discourse-structure uses. By exploring components of the BNC and COCA corpora this chapter contributes to the study of 'gosh' in terms of further formal and functional features (position and syntactic peripheral behaviour, discourse role in conversation, dialogic character) together with possible differences between British and American English. Looking at the behaviour of 'gosh' in our data, we claim that it is an interjection that functions as a pragmatic marker in present-day English.
PB John Benjamins Publishing Company
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/100105
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/100105
LA eng
NO Downing, Angela, y Elena Martínez Caro. «Chapter 4. Interjections and Emotions: The Case of Gosh». En Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, editado por J. Lachlan Mackenzie y Laura Alba-Juez, 302:87-112. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.302.04dow.
DS Docta Complutense
RD 8 abr 2025