Imprecatory interjectional expressions: Examples from Australian English  

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Hill, Deborah

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 18 no. 2&3 (Sep. 1992), page 209-223.

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/JPR/18 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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The purpose of this paper is to show the ways in which semantic and pragmatic restrictions operate on two very different types of interjectional expression. The paper focuses first on the difference between the expressions God Knows, Christ knows and they are easily substitutable foe one another. However, a closer analysis reveals that the differences between them go beyond a difference in the level of emotional intensity expressed, and taht each expression is associated with a particular attitude reflecting the extent to which the speaker does know something. For this reason they are always easily substitutable for one another. The paper then focusess on one word, bloody, which functionc in three syntactic positions. It is shown that a different illocutionary force is expressed depending on the syntactic position in which bloody occurs. At the same time, certain common semantic elements are retained regardless of the syntactic position.

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