Emotion Adjectives : A corpus study of the use of terrified, petrified and horrified in British and American English
For many non-native speakers of English it can be difficult to distinguish semantic differences between near-synonyms. In order to create idiomatically correct sentences in a language it is important to know which word to use in a specific context. This study deals with the emotion adjectives terrif...
Main Author: | Hagström, Elin |
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Format: | Others |
Language: | English |
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Växjö universitet, Institutionen för humaniora
2009
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Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-5317 |
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