Tim Wharton claimed that this part of speech exists on a continuum between “showing” and “saying” in a paper using relevance theory as a framework. Felix Ameka created a classification including the “conative” type of this part of speech in a paper referring to this part of speech as the “universal yet neglected part of speech.” A term referring to a blacksmith and an apprentice is used to describe a phatic use of this part of speech in Japanese called aizuchi, which is used in backchanneling. (*) Secondary examples of this part of speech are taken from other parts of speech. Members of this part of speech in English are the only ones where click consonants can occur. Cognitive examples of this part of speech are often used as filler words. For 10 points, English examples of what part of speech include expletives and exclamations like “ouch”? ■END■
ANSWER: interjections [accept cognitive or emotive interjections; accept primary or secondary interjections; accept “Interjections: The universal yet neglected part of speech”; prompt on exclamations or expletives before mention]
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