Listen carefully to a spoken conversation and you’ll notice that the speakers use a lot of little quasi-words—mm-hmm, um, huh? and the like—that don’t convey any information about the topic of the ...

Interjections primarily express emotion — often in a way that doesn’t seem very sophisticated. But Anne Curzan, an English professor at the University of Michigan and regular contributor to ...

Emotions Allow Me to Interject Interjections are the words that allow us to express our inner lives. Updated November 22, 2023 | Reviewed by Monica Vilhauer Ph.D.