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Publication details [#65589]

Chung, Siaw-Fong. 2018. The semantic extensions of kill and killer in magazine and newspaper corpora. International Review of Pragmatics 10 (1) : 29–56.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Brill

Annotation

The incidents of kill and killer are oft grasped as negative; however, proof presents that these words hold positive meanings too. The findings got by assaying magazine and newspaper corpora in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) displayed the interest of pragmatic interpretation in grasping meanings.