Bc. Lucie Šindelářová

Master's thesis

When It’s Damn Good: A Morphosyntactic Analysis of DAMN and a Corpus-Based Study of Its Semantic Prosody

When It’s Damn Good: A Morphosyntactic Analysis of DAMN and a Corpus-Based Study of Its Semantic Prosody
Abstract:
Účelem práce je analýza sprostého slova sakra jakožto lingvistického fenoménu, který tvoří neobvyklé a nepravidelné morfosyntaktické konstrukce. Práce se pokouší klasifikovat slovo sakra z hlediska slovních druhů a dále pomocí korpusové studie zkoumá sémantickou prozodii v konstrukcích, kde sakra funguje jako adverbiální intenzifikátor následujícího adjektiva.
Abstract:
The aim of this work is to analyse swear word damn as a linguistic phenomenon which forms unusual and irregular morphosyntactic constructions. The work attempts to classify the word damn in terms of possible word classes, and furthermore, through a corpus-based study, investigates the semantic prosody in structures where damn functions as an adverbial intensifier succeeded by an adjective.
 
 
Language used: English
Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 3. 1. 2017

Thesis defence

  • Date of defence: 3. 2. 2017
  • Supervisor: Ph.D. Wei-lun Lu
  • Reader: PhDr. Jarmila Fictumová

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Masaryk University

Faculty of Arts

Master programme / field:
Philology / English Language and Literature

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