THE SEMANTIC AND PRAGMATIC ASPECTS OF INTERJECTIONS IN "JAMILIA" BY CHYNGYZ AITMATOV
Emotions in speech can be expressed not only by means of prosodic structure, like intonation, stress, tone and rhythm, but also through various words, which denote emotional response to the real world. The article aims to search the function and meaning of that kind of words called interjections by scrutinizing their semantic and pragmatic aspects. The examples for the analysis are based on in the novelette “Jamilia” by Chingiz Aitmatov. The research was conducted by using continuous sampling method, context and component analysis, text analysis and qualitative method. The finding of a research is that interjections, despite the fact that their meaning has been unfairly diminished, have a rich variety of usage in a language.