You Hoboken! Semantics of an expressive label maker.
'You bastard' is insulting because 'bastard' is an expletive, but what's wrong with 'You Hoboken' or 'You big wet noodle'? This paper explores the semantics of a vocative construction that is particularly efficient at coining what I call 'expressive labels'; these are affect-transmitting expressions...
| Publicado en: | Linguistics & Philosophy Vol. 45; no. 2; pp. 365 - 392 |
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Springer Nature
Apr2022
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