THE INDEFINABLE IS DEFINABLE IN DISCOURSE

Abstract

When we analyze the part of speech paradigm the position of interjection is peripheral therefore the authors consider interjections to be to be “loosely integrated into the linguistic system." We are particularly interested in the functional characteristic of interjections used by different speakers (various age, gender, education and profession), their distribution and pragmatics in all kinds of contexts reflected in the professional and non-professional discourse in John Grisham’ s novel “The Client,” which is a perfect specimen of the ‘occupational’ or ‘job’ literature conveying the discourse of “legalese” in fiction style, and such symbiosis maybe labeled as ‘paraprofessional discourse.’ Then we will contribute one more point of view on the definition of interjections because Ulrice Stange says there is still no consensus how to define and categorize interjections because it is difficult to pinpoint what an interjection is [Stange, 2016].

By professional discourse we understand the legal discourse of policeman’s, detective’s, lawyer’s, judge’s, attorney’s and doctor’s described in the novel; by para-professional discourse we understand multimodal communication of attorneys, judges, lawyers with medics, kids, relatives and other occasional characters occurring in a professional and non-professional context of the occupational novel “The Client” by John Grisham.

Discussions of the intejections cgo back to ancient times and help reveal some fundamental issues of linguistics: form, meaning, and function. The units under study belong to a part of speech of interjections, their form is unchangeable, though in some cases we can come across such cases as huh –uh or hey – ey and the like. They express a variety of emotions, and syntactically they are parts of a sentence, or a separate sentences and there is a semantic correlation between interjections and the given structural units. Additionally, they play several discourse functions and point out discourse fluency or disfluency.

Despite a range of definitions their role in the contensive and structural character of discourse is significant, they provide the hearer/reader some information about the speaker’s state, age, gender, education, profession, social status, and his/her attitude to the interlocutor and the situation. And mainly in discourse we can differentiate them into speaker-oriented and and addressee oriented units.