When is it ok to call someone a jerk? An experimental investigation of expressives.

We present two experimental studies on the Italian expressive 'stronzo' (English 'jerk'). The first study tests whether, and to which extent, the acceptability of using an expressive is sensitive to the information available in the context. The study looks both at referential uses of expressives (as...

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Publicado en:Synthese Vol. 198; no. 10; pp. 9273 - 9293
Autores principales: Cepollaro, Bianca, Domaneschi, Filippo, Stojanovic, Isidora
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Oct2021
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