SMS Language Interjection

With the ever-increasing popularity of mobile phone, the advantages of shortmessages for lack of space and economy of words have become a pretty convenientcommunicative way. The interjection are often used when people communicate withshort messages, so on this basis, the article compares and distinguishes the interjectionin modern Chinese and mobile phone short messages. Further make the role andfunctions of interjection clear in different language environment, therefore produce apositive effect on development and standard to mobile phone short messageslanguage.Interjection in modern Chinese is nothing more than expressing the change oftone and the difference of emotion, but in mobile phone short messages, it has apeculiar effect on expression. For example,“呵呵”、“啊”、“哈哈” express thechange of tone and emotion in modern Chinese, while there are other meanings inmobile phone short messages. And“呵呵”transmits the emotion of joy and modesty,“啊” transmits the feeling of surprise. New emerging interjection like “哇噻”、“哇”、“嗯哼”expand to mobile phone short messages language with the extension ofcommunication.Interjection, as an organic composition part of subsystem of language vocabulary,has closed and open characteristics simultaneously comparing with some substantives.Its emotional function, evaluating function and closed function are important totransmit short messages and help to reduce embarrassment and lighten the atmospherein variety of situation. This article analyzes the language characteristics of mobilephone short messages by dividing their categories and functions, and hearing novoices and seeing not bodily is the special communicated way of mobile phone shortmessages, thus it plays a very significant role in expressing the meaning of mobilephone short messages and transmission of affection. Meanwhile, the article alsoanalyzes the state of usage and development of mobile phone short messageslanguage, and has an extraordinary meaning for the future development. Furthermore, the interjection in mobile phone short messages in current situationof Chinese promotion is also introduced briefly in this article. Overseas studentsseldom use mobile phone short messages, and they have a low degree for grasping theinterjection, so interjection are rarely used in mobile phone short messages.