Virtual Travel in Second Life

Zold, Elizabeth

doi:10.1215/15314200-2400494

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“…Sociohistorical and cultural factors (e.g., the rise of the novel, technological and societal changes) led to the decline of the popularity of the travelogue. As noted by Zold (2014:225), however, “in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe, travel narratives constituted one of the most widely read genres in literature, second only to theological texts.”…”

Section: Tautological Intensification In the English Np: A Contextualizationmentioning

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Intensificatory Tautology in the History of English: A Corpus-based Study

González-Díaz

2021

Journal of English Linguistics

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This paper explores the development and establishment of intensificatory tautology (specifically, size-adjective clusters, e.g., “ great big plans,” “ little tiny room”) in the history of English. The analysis suggests that size-adjective clusters appear in the Late Middle English period as a result of the functional-structural reorganization of the English noun phrase. It is only towards the end of the Early Modern English period that they start to become (relatively) productive in the language, and in Present-Day English that they acquire a wide(r) intensifying functional range (i.e., adjective modifier, emphasizer, degree intensifier) and become associated with informal, spoken-based registers. More broadly, the paper suggests that more research is needed as regards the role of collocation in processes of intensifier creation in the noun phrase and, more generally, as regards how collocation interacts with word-formation processes in this context.

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Section: Tautological Intensification In the English Np: A Contextualizationmentioning

confidence: 99%