Original scientific paper
Adjectives and the concept of the evaluation norm: study and proposal for the classification of some adverbial markers for adjectives
Laurence Rouanne
; Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad Pontificia Comillas
Abstract
This work is included in an essentially semantic and pragmatic framework. Adjectives are, on
the whole, terms in language which reflect, the subjectivity of the speaker. Such subjectivity becomes
an average due to the systematic resource, a reference point –the evaluation rule– partly forged
in relation to the idea that the speaker has regarding the applicability of a quality. Taking this
point, we believe that the attribution of a quality to an object can be modified in two ways: in
terms of intensity or suitability, on the one hand, an internal modification, on the other, an external
modification. We propose a classification of the system of the modifying adjectives based on
this difference.
Keywords
adjectives; markers (linguistics); classification of adjectives; intensity; suitability; subjectivity of the speaker
Hrčak ID:
47104
URI
Publication date:
16.12.2009.
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