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Evaluative and intensifying -ly adverbs in students' spoken discourse

Authors: Ježková Šárka

Year: 2024

Type of publication: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Page from-to: nestránkováno

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Language	Name	Abstract	Keywords
eng	Evaluative and intensifying -ly adverbs in students' spoken discourse	The paper presents an analysis of selected stance and intensifying -ly adverbs frequently used by English learners in their spoken discourse. Generally, the adverb is understood as a sentence element that is on the periphery of the sentence structure, being optional. However, in terms of meaning, it is clearly an essential element in the communication process. The research question has been inspired by the conclusion of a study focused on the use of adverbs in modern English, i.e., the increasing frequency of adverbs used for the expression of speaker stance, described as the adverbialization of speaker attitude in two major constructions: an adverb modifying a clause or sentence and an adverb modifying an adjective phrase. Moreover, other researchers describe the functions of individual adverbs as shifting, changing, or multiplying. Thus, for the aim of this study, the Corpus of Czech Students’ Spoken English (Ježková 2015) has been explored: the concordance results of selected adverbs have been examined with the intention of interpreting how the use of individual structures performs communicative functions: expressing the degree of intensity, assessment or evaluation of the proposition, or even emotions.	spoken discourse; students’ English language; -ly adverbs; intensification; evaluation