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expressive meaning: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

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Pragmatics

a dimension of meaning carried by words like damn or slurs that expresses the speaker's attitude, is speaker-oriented and resists paraphrase and denial.

In pragmatics, expressive meaning refers to a dimension of meaning carried by words like damn or slurs that expresses the speaker's attitude, is speaker-oriented and resists paraphrase and denial. This meaning comes from Potts (2007) in Theoretical Linguistics.[1]

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attitude6 fields · 12 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs denial3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs dimension4 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Potts, C. (2007). The expressive dimension. Theoretical Linguistics, 33(2), 165-198. https://doi.org/10.1515/tl.2007.011

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