Claudia Claridge, Ewa Jonsson, Merja Kyto

Intensifiers in Late Modern English (eBook, ePUB)

A Sociopragmatic Approach to Courtroom Discourse

• Format: ePub

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108583923
• Artikelnr.: 70913378

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.