English Amplifiers in American Television Sitcoms: A Corpus-based Analysis on Friends and How I Met Your Mother

amplifiers;colloquial;collocates;corpus;gender;television;delexicalization;820

인문대학 영어영문학과 ;

University:서울대학교 대학원

关键词: amplifiers;    colloquial;    collocates;    corpus;    gender;    television;    delexicalization;    820;   

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美国|英语

来源: Seoul National University Open Repository

【 摘 要 】

however, really was the most popular amplifier for Friends-HIMYM Corpus and CASO while very was most frequently used in COCA and COHA.The results also showed that very and really are collocated with common, scalar adjectives and totally with more complex, prefixed adjectives. Very was never collocated with verbs, really was collocated with auxiliary and cognitive verbs, and totally was collocated with suffixed verbs. All three amplifiers were used more often by female characters than male characters.However, a comparative analysis on MICASE and BNCweb indicated that amplifier preferences varied depending on different gender and age groups in American and British English samples.