It is obvious that for a paper like this a selection has to be made, almost any could be justified.

The reason for choosing these and excluding other items of intensification are both trivial and well-considered. Mr Alexander Yakolev was warmly applauded when (BBC) Warmly human and chillingly disturbing (ukephem) Mild sedatives or anti-depressants (ukbooks)Ī beautiful but sadly collapsed. The paper will concentrate on meaning transitions in expressions pitch movement) that are also capable of expressing or at least contributing to intensification. It is not the aim of this paper to provide an exhaustive catalogue of English intensifiers as such (it would take volumes of books to do this), nor will it include those rhetorical figures ( e.g.

This paper will focus on (representatives of) the special group of adjectives and adverbs that are capable of expressing the concept of DEGREE in addition to the concept of MANNER, but it will disregard all further lexical and phrasal sets such as nouns, phraseological units etc. The question can be raised as to the multitude of language means that can potentially contribute to intensification. The phenomenon of intensification has been approached from different angles. Grading, intensifying and minimizing are therefore almost constant characteristics of our speech. (Or at least in our culture we do not see our world like this.) Its description and conceptualization requires rather a sophisticated, complex language able to express subtle distinctions and finer shades of meaning. Our world is not such that we could best talk about it in plain, straightforward, clear-cut notions. There is a long, yet by no means outdated tradition in English studies to explore the rich potential that is available to users of English for emphasizing and intensifying their ideas. The Interrelation between Adverbs of Manner and Adverbs of Degree

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