Even in the case of interjections with a certain conceptual load, that conceptual content would be but the starting point for their interpretation process. The shades many interjections express are so unique in many cases that they do not stabilise into concepts (Sperber and Wilson 1997: 121)....
now largely obsolete, interjectionyoicks,which was a call used in fox hunting in England to spur on the hunting dogs. Around the late 2010s,yikescame to be modified with the adjective “big,” as inbig yikes. While the origin of this change is unclear, it’s possible that it is associ...