Essays about: "Alexander Willstedt"

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  1. 1. Absolutely amplified : A corpus study of amplifiers, their usage and collocations in two different corpora

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Alexander Willstedt; [2014]
    Keywords : adverbs; amplifiers; collocations; corpus-studies; gendered language; linguistics; normalization;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to investigate the usage and frequencies of amplifiers in the English language and whether there are differences in usage, collocations and in gender. The material used is the Swedish-English Corpus (SWENC), a collection of Swedish native speaking journalists writing in English, and the Corpus of American Soaps (SOAP), a collection of American soap opera scripts. READ MORE