The pragmatics of expressive content: Evidence from large corpora

Noah Constant · Christopher Michael Davis · Christopher Potts · Florian Schwarz

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Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies Linguistics and Language Analysis

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We use large collections of online product reviews, in Chinese, English, German, and Japanese, to study the use conditions of expressives (swears, antihonorifics, intensives). The distributional evidence provides quantitative support for a pragmatic theory of these items that is based in speaker and hearer expectations.

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