“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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Jagiellonian University Press
2023-01-01
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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 |