“From the Speaker’s Point of View” – Subjectification as Pragmatic-Semantic Language Change

The article demonstrates the importance of subjectification processes in shaping the metatextual layer of language. Using three lexical units (prawda ‘true, right’, pewnie ‘sure, certainly’ and szalenie ‘extremely, madly’) as examples, the author shows how the enrichment of their semantic structur...

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Main Author: Magdalena Pastuch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Jagiellonian University Press 2023-01-01
Series:Studies in Polish Linguistics
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Online Access:https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studies-in-polish-linguistics/artykul/from-the-speakers-point-of-view-subjectification-as-pragmatic-semantic-language-change