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Yaguchi, Michiko, Yoko Iyeiri and Yasumasa Baba. 2010. 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 42 (3) : 585–597.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

Drawing on the Corpus of Spoken Professional American English, this study examines speech style and gender differences in the use of and distribution and sociolinguistic functions of the adjective-modifying intensifiers 'very' and 'real/really', commonly employed in American English speech.