He's absolutely massive. It's a super day. Madonna, she is a wicked singer. Youth language and intensification: A corpus-based study

Text and Talk

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 773-796

  Martínez, Ignacio M Palacios ^a   Pertejo, Paloma Núñez ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adjective intensification; Expletives; Intensification; Intensifiers; Taboo words; Teenagers' language

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870270933     PISSN: 18607330     EISSN: 18607349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/text-2012-0036     Document Type: Article

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