Emplois contemporains des adverbes d’intensité SO et TOTALLY

In line with Antoine Culioli's work, this paper offers an analysis of the adverbs SO and TOTALLY in new uses attested in the 1970s (according to the OED) characterized by specific distributional properties. Several studies (Aijmer 2011, Irwin 2014, Beltrama 2018 inter alii) have described these...

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Main Authors: Lionel Dufaye, Lucie Gournay
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Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2021-10-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/4321
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description In line with Antoine Culioli's work, this paper offers an analysis of the adverbs SO and TOTALLY in new uses attested in the 1970s (according to the OED) characterized by specific distributional properties. Several studies (Aijmer 2011, Irwin 2014, Beltrama 2018 inter alii) have described these new uses, attempting to link the traditional intensifier uses of SO and TOTALLY to the hyperbolic new values. While building on these studies, we propose a new analysis of SO and TOTALLY in their so-called non gradable uses. Our analysis builds up on theoretical concepts developed by Antoine Culioli, who devoted much of his work to the study of intensity markers.We will see that the semantic properties of the adverbs SO and TOTALLY (as well as VERY which will be introduced in the analysis for the sake of comparison), can be modelized and differentiated according to 1) the types of qualitative operations, 2) topological properties (such as boundedness), and 3) the transindividual or subjective quality of the expressed intensity. We will show that SO and TOTALLY maintain their core semantics in these new uses but that the intensity they express plays at another level, i.e. a metalinguistic level. Finally, we will show how [SO TOTALLY] marks a double evaluation, both metalinguistic and appreciative.
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spelling doaj-art-d9d9a002848a4ebd91f0258ea8b94c392025-01-30T12:33:06ZengPresses Universitaires du MidiAnglophonia1278-33312427-04662021-10-013110.4000/anglophonia.4321Emplois contemporains des adverbes d’intensité SO et TOTALLYLionel DufayeLucie GournayIn line with Antoine Culioli's work, this paper offers an analysis of the adverbs SO and TOTALLY in new uses attested in the 1970s (according to the OED) characterized by specific distributional properties. Several studies (Aijmer 2011, Irwin 2014, Beltrama 2018 inter alii) have described these new uses, attempting to link the traditional intensifier uses of SO and TOTALLY to the hyperbolic new values. While building on these studies, we propose a new analysis of SO and TOTALLY in their so-called non gradable uses. Our analysis builds up on theoretical concepts developed by Antoine Culioli, who devoted much of his work to the study of intensity markers.We will see that the semantic properties of the adverbs SO and TOTALLY (as well as VERY which will be introduced in the analysis for the sake of comparison), can be modelized and differentiated according to 1) the types of qualitative operations, 2) topological properties (such as boundedness), and 3) the transindividual or subjective quality of the expressed intensity. We will show that SO and TOTALLY maintain their core semantics in these new uses but that the intensity they express plays at another level, i.e. a metalinguistic level. Finally, we will show how [SO TOTALLY] marks a double evaluation, both metalinguistic and appreciative.https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/4321intensitysubjectivityhigh-degreetotallysovery
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