Claudia Claridge, Ewa Jonsson, Merja Kytö

Intensifiers in Late Modern English

A Sociopragmatic Approach to Courtroom Discourse

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Drawing on a rich bank of data from the Old Bailey Corpus, this groundbreaking book provides the first full study of intensifiers in Late Modern English. It shows how usage varies for a wide variety of reasons, making it essential reading for scholars and advanced students in English historical linguistics"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9781108428668
• ISBN-10: 1108428665
• Artikelnr.: 69231289

Autorenporträt

Claudia Claridge is Chair of English Linguistics, University of Augsburg, Germany. She specializes in historical discourse linguistics and (historical) pragmatics. She is the author of Multi-word Verbs in Early Modern English (2000) and Hyperbole in English (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: pleading the case
2. Theoretical and methodological considerations
3. Intensifiers: forms, features, and functions
4. Corpus methodology and overview of data
5. Maximizers
6. Boosters
7. Downtoners
8. Multivariate analysis: intensifiers in a bird's-eye view
9. Intensifiers across time
10. The pragmatics of intensifiers
11. The sociolinguistics of intensifiers
12. Conclusion: summing up the evidence
Appendices.