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Introjection vs Interjection - What's the difference?

introjection | interjection |

As nouns the difference between introjection and interjection

is that introjection is the process whereby ideas of another are unconsciously incorporated into one's own psyche while interjection is an exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.

introjection

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (psychology) The process whereby ideas of another are unconsciously incorporated into one's own psyche.
  • interjection

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar) An exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.
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  • Some evidence confirming our suspicions that topicalised and dislocated constituents occupy different sentence positions comes from Greenberg (1984). He notes that in colloquial speech the interjection man'' can occur after dislocated constituents, but not after topicalised constituents: cf.
    (21) (a)      ''Bill'', man, I really hate him (dislocated NP)
    (21) (b)    ?''Bill
    , man, I really hate (topicalised NP)
  • An interruption; something interjected
  • See also

    * vocative * (wikipedia "interjection") ----