Georges Remi, better known as Hergé, is a cartoonist, famous thanks to The Adventures of Tintin, a series of 23 albums chronicling the adventures of Tintin, a brave young Belgian reporter and adventurer. Comic books are very plentiful from a semantic point of view and a category that is especially abundant is that of the interjection. This research paper takes a closer look at the different parts of speech that can constitute an interjection, the message it sends and what function it undertakes in any given comic by focusing on five of Hergé’s works: The Crab with the Golden Claws, King Ottokar's Sceptre, The Shooting Star, Tintin in the Congo and Tintin in Tibet. The first part of the dissertation explains the origins of the comic book and its development during the last century, while a short biography of Hergé and a description of the three main characters are also included. The second part is of a theoretical nature, its aim is to define the interjection and the manner in which it differs from other parts of speech, as well as to outline the basics of semiotics and to define Jakobson's theory on the functions of language. Finally, the analytical part, based on the five works, provides detailed examples throughout the second part of the dissertation and, by means of a textual analysis, gives the necessary information on the interjections that were found.
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