Speech style and gender distinctions in the use of very and real/really: An analysis of the Corpus of Spoken Professional American English

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 585-597

  Yaguchi, Michiko ^a   Iyeiri, Yoko ^b   Baba, Yasumasa ^c  

^a SETSUNAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

American English; Attributive adjectives; Gender; Intensifiers; Predicative adjectives; Speech style; Stigma

Indexed keywords

EID: 74149087571     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2009.08.002     Document Type: Article

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