Browsing by Subject "American English"
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A corpus-based study on nearsynonymy: The concept PLEASANT SMELLING in 19th- and 20th-century American English
(2021)This dissertation examines the distributional patterns of the five adjectival near-synonyms fragrant, perfumed, scented, sweet-scented, and sweet-smelling, which designate the concept PLEASANT SMELLING in American English ... -
Revisiting you know and I mean: Some notes on the functions of the two pragmatic markers in contemporary spoken American English
(Asociación Española de Lingüística de Corpus (AELINCO), 2018)This article presents a corpus-based study of the pragmatic markers you know and I mean in contemporary spoken American English. Previous research indicates that you know and I mean are polysemous in their discourse roles, ...