Death-related Intensifiers in the History of English

An all-important question for humans, death is unsurprisingly used as a source of intensification in language, perhaps even cross-linguistically. This book explores the use of death for intensification purposes in English and aims to shed light on how certain forms from this semantic field came to b...

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Main Author:	Blanco-Suárez, Zeltia
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 2025
Subjects:	applied linguistics Blanco Byrne corpus linguistics Damian Davis Death English English language and linguistics Graeme Grammaticalisation historical linguistics History history of the English language intensifiers Phenomena semantic change semantics and pragmatics Suárez subjectification variation and change Zeltia thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFF Historical and comparative linguistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFG Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFX Computational and corpus linguistics thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DB Ancient, classical and medieval texts thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism
Online Access:	ONIX_20250324_9781803745152_3
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Death-related Intensifiers in the History of English

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