INTERJECTIONS AS EMOTIONAL AND EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE UNITS
The article deals with emotionality and expressiveness being linguistic characteristics of interjections as a special class of words. Interjections are a result of complex mental processes constituting the content of man's emotional life. The speech peculiarities in a state of emotional tension bring about particular functions of its interjections as simple, deliberately used means of expressing a communicator's proper feelings, his attitude towards the situation, his will-expression directed to the addressee in the communicative act. Since emotionality is recognized as one of the means of speech expressiveness, interjections can be defined as emotional and expressive units contributing to the expression of a speaker's communicative intension and even having corresponding impact on the addressee.