Publications

Publication details [#53011]

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

Keywords

gender | intensifier | professional language | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

English, American

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

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.