Intensifiers in Late Modern English: A Sociopragmatic Approach to Courtroom Discourse

by Ewa Jonsson, Claudia Claridge, Merja Kytö

The development of intensifiers has long been identified as an area of vibrant change in Late Modern English. This groundbreaking book provides the first comprehensive study of intensifiers in this period, and shows how they have changed over time. It uses speech-based and interactive data from the Old Bailey courthouse in London, enriched by extralinguistic information in the Old Bailey Corpus, to investigate an unprecedented range of intensifiers,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108428665
• ISBN13: 9781108428668
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"