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Very good, Scott. I however replied to different noises<br>like ts... ts... or tse... tse...<br><br>Hayim<br><br><b><i>bolstar1 <bolstar1@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <!-- Network content --> <div id="ygrp-text"> <div> This post will address a type of utterance that has only <br> descriptive references -- not a general tag-type, and certainly not a <br> category in the pantheon of recognized grammatical categories (eight <br> or nine). That is the "non-verbal noise." <br> Hayim, you were correct in stating that this type of utterance <br> is not verbal. However, it does function so, if noises made
by the <br> mouth could be considered communicating a purpose, not simply as a <br> reactive impulse. It simply happens to happen with noises – uttered <br> through the mouth, nose, or tongue -- not the eyes (e.g. "bat one's <br> eyes at"); not the nose (thumb one's nose at; wrinkle one's nose at); <br> not the eyebrows (with furrowed brows); not the fingers (flip someone <br> the finger/bird)<wbr>; not the arms (with arms crossed); not the derriere <br> (moon someone). These all have their own category – simply nonverbal <br> communication. I'm referring to "verbalizing" – though not "verbal" <br> in the strict sense. <br> I asked Michael Adams about these utterances, and he directed me <br> to his and McMillan's papers on "infixing" and "interposing.<wbr>" In <br> Adam's paper "Meaningful Infixing: a Nonexpletive Form", he refers to <br> McMillan's wording about infixing – "According to James B. McMillan <br> (1980, 163), infixing generates a lexeme with "a
polysyllabic word as <br> the matrix and an emotional intensifier (an expletive or a euphemism) <br> as the insert," such as guaranfuckingtee or unfuckingbelievable<wbr>. <br> Infixes are "emotive stress amplifier[s]<wbr>," and inserts are usually <br> semantically neutral." <br> Adams goes on to say, "where an infixing or interposing is not <br> an "emotional stress amplifier," we observe tmesis or diacope, <br> instead. The OED says of tmesis,.. – 1678 (Phillips) "a figure of <br> Prosody, wherein a compounded word is, as it were, cut asunder, and <br> divided into two parts by some other word which is interposed, as <br> Septem Subjecta Trioni, for Subjecta Septemtrioni.<wbr>" The OED says <br> of "diacope" – "a division of a word compound into two parts, as, <br> What might be so ever..for, whatsoever might be" <br> But I'm talking here about autonomous vocal utterances per se, <br> not infixing or interposing (which according to the comments in the <br>
previously-mentione<wbr>d papers, generally have no independent semantic <br> meat. Perhaps a telling distinction between those types and the <br> following are 1) mouthed interjections have semantic meat <br> (communicating a distinct agreement/disagreem<wbr>ent/; imperative mood to <br> stop someone's actions, or calling someone's attention to <br> inappropriateness of action (implied imperative mood); 2) <br> emphatic/intensive/<wbr>emotive & intellectual reaction. Examples here are <br> exemplitive (technically "exemplificative of"-- not comprehensive of, <br> the kind I'm referring to.<br> <br> a gag sign (finger pointing into the recess of the throat) <br> hissing/hooting /jeering/<br> Bronx cheer (flapping one's lips-enwrapped tongue by blowing through <br> mouth – i.e. "Go <br> back to the bench!)<br> Ahem!! || clearing one's throat (Hey, what the heck are you doing! || <br> Stop that!!) <br> heavy breathing/mouth breathing (obscene telephone noise
intended to <br> woo, or at least <br> communicate one-way one's one-sided intentions) <br> wolf-whistling (construction-<wbr>worker reaction to a pretty girl)<br> smacking one's lips dogs and mankind are so connected) <br> Tsk-tsk! || Tut-tut! (see "Ahem!!)<br> sticking out one's tongue at someone (so self-explanatory – does any <br> culture take this as <br> a sign of honor?; I'm reminded of Ace Ventura (Jim Carrey) <br> being snotted on by <br> African tribal chief -- as a sign of honored welcome to the <br> tribe) <br> <br> The problem of course lies in frequency of usage. If a form <br> has a fixed number of tokens in a language, say, 100, would that be a <br> reasonable threshold beyond which a category (a sort of pantheon <br> category/pantheon type) would be created, or enough for a sub-<br> category (with a demonstrable distinction that sets if off from other <br> subsets), or would it still be considered simply a designation/<wbr>a <br>
tag/a rhetorical type – such as "infixing" or "antistrophe" or "tag <br> question"? <br> I think of these listed types as being subsets <br> of "interjection.<wbr>" Though in a sense, this is a misnomer, in that it <br> has distinct implied and understood purpose (i.e. to communicate an <br> idea, or purpose, to a listener) enough semantic stuff to lift it <br> above a simple infix, a simple interpose, an appositive addendum, or <br> a simple emotive uttered reaction (which is basically what an <br> interjection is). "Guffaws," chuckles," "friggin'-blah, blah, blah-<br> type" infixes, diacopes (Dos anyone really know what time it is, or <br> what a "diacope" is?) would be excluded here. <br> <br> Scott N.<br> <br> </div> </div> <!--End group email --> </blockquote><br><p>
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