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Vociferation vs Interjection - What's the difference?

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Vociferation is a related term of interjection.


As nouns the difference between vociferation and interjection

is that vociferation is vociferation while interjection is (grammar) an exclamation or filled pause; a word or phrase with no particular grammatical relation to a sentence, often an expression of emotion.

vociferation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of exclaiming; violent outcry; vehement utterance of the voice.
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  • And as she apprehended the boy's life was in danger, she screamed ten times louder than before; and indeed Master Blifil himself now seconded her with all the vociferation in his power.

    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") ----