I’m so sorry: Intensification in American English across time
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Teaching English with Corpora: A Resource Book. Hrsg. / Vander Viana. London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2022. S. 188-192 37.
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TY - CHAP
T1 - I’m so sorry
T2 - Intensification in American English across time
AU - Barron, Anne
PY - 2022/10
Y1 - 2022/10
N2 - Although frequently decried, language change is pervasive. This lesson aims at encouraging an awareness of the pervasiveness of language change and an openness for future change and innovation in language. The lesson focuses on changes in intensifier use in apology realisations in American English over time. Intensifiers are adverbs like sincerely and deeply, which maximize the meaning of the adjective or verb they precede. In apologies, they serve to increase the linguistic politeness communicated by the speaker. In this lesson, we examine the intensifiers used most frequently with sorry in the Corpus of Contemporary American English in two time periods – 1990–1994 and 2015–2017. This contrast provides students with a recent example of language change and challenges concepts which student teachers and their students may have of a fixed and rigid language.
AB - Although frequently decried, language change is pervasive. This lesson aims at encouraging an awareness of the pervasiveness of language change and an openness for future change and innovation in language. The lesson focuses on changes in intensifier use in apology realisations in American English over time. Intensifiers are adverbs like sincerely and deeply, which maximize the meaning of the adjective or verb they precede. In apologies, they serve to increase the linguistic politeness communicated by the speaker. In this lesson, we examine the intensifiers used most frequently with sorry in the Corpus of Contemporary American English in two time periods – 1990–1994 and 2015–2017. This contrast provides students with a recent example of language change and challenges concepts which student teachers and their students may have of a fixed and rigid language.
KW - Language Studies
UR - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/b22833/teaching-english-corpora-vander-viana
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/6e40b98c-3ba0-36b4-bb1f-8b5d0f320228/
U2 - 10.4324/b22833
DO - 10.4324/b22833
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 978-1-032-25299-5
SN - 978-1-032-25297-1
SP - 188
EP - 192
BT - Teaching English with Corpora
A2 - Viana, Vander
PB - Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
CY - London
ER -