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"Drunk" or "drunken". A sociolinguistic research on two adjectives

"Drunk" or "drunken". A sociolinguistic research on two adjectives

Rossi, Giulia

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Linguistics

ISBN10: 3668961913
ISBN13: 9783668961913
Publisher: Grin Verlag
Published: Jul 16 2019
Pages: 24
Weight: 0.09
Height: 0.05 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 5.5 (CH) d.h. 1.5 (DEU), University of Zurich (Englisches Seminar), course: Introduction to Linguistics, Part I (Seminar Group 6), language: English, abstract: This paper sets out to examine the use of the adjectives drunk and drunken. According to the Oxford English Dictionary the definition of drunk is Affected by alcohol to the extent of losing control of one's faculties or behaviour, and that of drunken reads Drunk or intoxicated. Consequently, their use on the lexical level seems to be the same and, therefore, interchangeable. Both expressions are used in temporary English and are not antiquated. Thus, the question may arise whether other factors determine the application of each of these adjectives. The field of sociolinguistics deals with such questions of variation in language or more precisely in the use of different expression denotating the same meaning, while it does not simply assess different utterances as either correct or incorrect. Sociolinguists like Sali Tagliamonte rather examine language influencing variables like discourse features, social patterns or linguistic patterns, of which the two latter ones will serve as the investigative frame of the two adjectives drunk and drunken. In order to probe thoroughly into the usage of these two words, this paper, firstly, delivers a look into previous research on, and into the theoretical background of the respective adjectives. Secondly, the original data, namely the British National Corpus, and the gained random samples from this corpus are characterized, whereafter the methodology of coding for social (accent, sex and social grade) and linguistic (various syntactic functions) features is explained. The results and analysis of this coding for factors which may influence the usage of drunk and drunken are, thirdly, presented quantitatively and qualitatively in the two sect

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