Affective ‘this’

Authors

  • Christopher Potts Stanford University
  • Florian Schwarz University of Pennsylvania

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33011/lilt.v3i.1219

Keywords:

pragmatics, computational pragmatics

Abstract

Lakoff (1974) argues that affective demonstratives in English are markers of solidarity, with exclamative overtones deriving from their close association with evaluative predication. Focusing on this, we seek to inform these claims using quantitative corpus evidence. Our experiments suggest that affectivity is not limited to specific uses of this, but rather that it arises in a wide range of linguistic and discourse contexts. We also briefly extend our methodology to demonstrative that and to German diese- (‘this’).

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Published

2010-02-01

How to Cite

Potts, C., & Schwarz, F. (2010). Affective ‘this’. Linguistic Issues in Language Technology, 3. https://doi.org/10.33011/lilt.v3i.1219

Issue

Vol. 3 (2010): Implementation of Linguistic Analyses Against Data

Section

Articles

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