“I do not understand what you mean by interrupting them,” said Elinor I stumbled upon this interesting conversation between Sense and Sensibility’s Elinor and Anne Steele: In recent use, a mere expression of surprise.” Since I had never seen this interjection before, I looked it up in the OED and found that it meant the following: “An exclamation formerly used to introduce or accompany a conventional phrase or an address, or to call attention to an emphatic statement.
While looking through the interjections, I came across La. Intercourse as a word appears as well but back in Jane Austen’s time this referred to conversations and the act that we can denote by it nowadays. However, in my search of interjections throughout Jane Austen’s works, I came across instances where intercourse was the topic of the conversation. ĭuring class last week, we talked about swearing and taboo words in Jane Austen and that there is this idea that there is no such thing as these concepts in Jane Austen. Both in her published novels and her manuscripts available through the amazing website. Ever since September 2013, I have delved into the world of Jane Austen and her language.
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