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Publication details [#32136]

Tagliamonte, Sali A. and Rika Ito. 2003. Well weird, right dodgy, very strange, really cool: Layering and recycling in English intensifiers. Language in Society 32 (2) : 257–279.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

intensifier | language change | social class | speech community

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This article explores variations in English intensifier use in a corpus from a socially and generationally stratified speech community, in order to understand linguistic change as well as to discover current trends in contemporary English.