Essays about: "intensifiers"

Found 5 essays containing the word intensifiers.

1. 1. Negative Online Shopping Experiences: An Exploration of Remembered Dissatisfaction and its Meaning for Consumers’ Future Experiences

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för tjänstevetenskap

   Author : Sebastian Emidi; [2021]
   Keywords : Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Consumers evaluate each step of their journey, which influences consumer’s expectations for further experiences and future intentions. Accordingly, past experiences are stored in consumers’ memory but each part of the journey will not be remembered. READ MORE

3. 2. President Trump’s use of ‘Impoliteness Strategies’ in Twitter outputs targeted at U.S. politicians (from 15 June 2015, to 24 May 2019)

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

   Author : Albin Hamnö; [2020]
   Keywords : U.S. President Donald Trump; Twitter; Impoliteness strategies; Impoliteness triggers; Impoliteness functions; Quantitative analysis; Degree of offence;

   Abstract : This paper enters into a field of linguistics dedicated to analysing the use of strategies in performing impolite, intentionally targeted, language output. Specifically, it evaluates the purpose(s) of U.S. President Donald Trump’s impolite output on social media platform Twitter. READ MORE

4. 3. Functions of taboo expressions in YouTube discourse: The case of iDubbbzTV

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

   Author : Jonathan Lidbäck; [2020]
   Keywords : Taboo; Context; YouTube; Profanity; Online; iDubbbzTV; Tabu; Kontext; YouTube; Svordomar; Online; iDubbbzTV;

   Abstract : The purpose of this study is to identify relationships between usage of taboo expressions in a selected YouTube clip, and how the audience of iDubbbzTV react to these taboo expressions and how they use them themselves. The data used in this study is in the form of spoken and written language which is transcribed and collected from a selected iDubbbzTV YouTube clip and its comment section. READ MORE

5. 4. Maximizers - completely complex adverbs : A corpus study of the maximizer usage in American and Swedish journalists' writing in English

   University essay from Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Sanna Eriksson; [2014]
   Keywords : amplifiers; collocations; corpus-studies; intensifiers; linguistics; maximizers; second versus first language acqusition; semantic prosody;

   Abstract : The purpose of this study is to investigate the possible differences in the way American and Swedish journalists writing in English use maximizers, i.e. intensifying adverbs. READ MORE

6. 5. Omission Phenomena in the American TV-series ”The Wire”

   University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

   Author : Lisa Olsson; [2010]
   Keywords : Subtitling; Omission phenomena; Intensifier; Interjection; Filler; The Wire;

   Abstract : The aim of this study is to find out what effects the omission of intensifiers, interjections and fillers has on the general English subtitle track in the TV-series “The Wire”. Questions addressed in the study include the possible reasons for such omissions, and the consequences of applying omission strategies in this context. READ MORE