Publications
Unuabonah, Foluke Olayinka, Adebola Adebileje and Rotimi Olanrele Oladipupo. 2021. Intensifier Usage in Nigerian English: A Corpus-Based Approach. Corpus Pragmatics 5 (3) : 335–358.
Fuchs, Robert. 2017. Do women (still) use more intensifiers than men? Recent change in the sociolinguistics of intensifiers in British English. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 22 (3) : 345–374.
Palacios Martínez, Ignacio M. and Paloma Núñez Pertejo. 2014. That’s absolutely crap, totally rubbish: The use of the intensifiers absolutely and totally in the spoken language of British adults and teenagers. Functions of Language 21 (2) : 210–237.
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.
Bondi, M. 2008. Emphatics in academic discourse: Integrating corpus and discourse tools in the study of cross-disciplinary variation. In Reppen, Randi and Annelie Ädel, eds. Corpora and Discourse. The challenges of different settings. (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 31). John Benjamins. pp. 31–55.
Diani, Giuliana. 2008. Emphasizers in spoken and written academic discourse: The case of really. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 13 (3) : 296–321.
Jing-Schmidt, Zuo. 2007. Negativity bias in language: A cognitive-affective model of emotive intensifiers. Cognitive Linguistics 18 (3) : 417–443.
Klerk, Vivian De. 2005. Expressing levels of intensity in Xhosa English. English World-Wide 26 (1) : 77–95.
Ito, Rika and Sali A. Tagliamonte. 2003. Well weird, right dodgy, very strange, really cool: Layering and recycling in English intensifiers. Language in Society 32 (2) : 257–279.
Rissanen, Matti and Terttu Nevalainen. 2002. Fairly pretty or pretty fair? On the development and grammaticalization of English downtoners. Language Sciences 24 (3-4) : 359–380.
Overstreet, Maryann and George Yule. 2002. The metapragmatics of and everything. Journal of Pragmatics 34 (6) : 785–794.
Low, Graham. 1996. Intensifiers and hedges in questionnaire items and the lexical invisibility hypothesis. Applied Linguistics 17 (1) : 1–37.
Bradac, James J., Sandra A. Thompson and Anthony Mulac. 1995. Men's and women's use of intensifiers and hedges in problem-solving interaction: Molar and molecular analyses. Research on Language and Social Interaction 28 (2) : 93–116.
Dressler, Wolfgang U. and Lavinia Merlini Barbaresi. 1994. Morphopragmatics: Diminutives and intensifiers in Italian, German, and other languages. De Gruyter Mouton.
Zellermayer, Michal. 1991. Intensifiers in Hebrew and in English. Journal of Pragmatics 15 (1) : 43–58.
Hübler, Axel. 1977. Analyse und alles über 'and all' und alles: Zu kompletivformeln in umgangssprachlichen Äusserungen. In Sprengel, Konrad, Wolf-Dietrich Bald and Heinz Werner Viethen, eds. Semantik und Pragmatik: Akten des 11. linguistischen Kolloquiums, Aachen 1976, Band 2. M. Niemeyer. pp. 243–254.