Interjections and individual style: A study of restoration dramatic language

This paper examines the manifestation of individual style through lens a specific language category: interjection. The analysis considers how interjections are used as resource in dramatic dialogue three Restoration playwrights: Aphra Behn, John Dryden and Thomas D’Urfey, their preferences practices use compare to previously identified trends history English. Using concept repertoire frame for situated use, genre, time, characterisation shape selection frequency plays each author. Corpus linguistic methods provide quantitative qualitative overview author’s interjection repertoire. results suggest that whilst influential shaping implementation forms, choice expressive contexts is also distinctive coherent at an authorial level.