Compromiser - a notional paradigm
| Autor: | Carita Paradis |
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| Jazyk: | German<br />English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />French |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | Hermes, Vol 7, Iss 13 (2017) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0904-1699 1903-1785 |
| DOI: | 10.7146/hjlcb.v7i13.25081 |
| Popis: | On the basis of an investigation of the lexical forms quite, rather, fairly, and pretty in contemporary spoken British English, I postulate that these lexical items form a notional paradigm of compromiser within the category of degree modifiers. Compromisers are cognitive synonyms that occupy the middle of an abstract intensity scale, approximating a mean degree of another word, eg quite / rather / fairly / pretty dirty. They are all polysemous and poly-functional words, whose meanings are determined by a crucial semantic trait ‘to a moderate degree’ on the paradigmatic axis, and by a semantic-syntactic, selection-licensing mechanism on the syntagmatic axis. |
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