Ulrike Stange

Biographic Data

ID4054896
NAMEUlrike Stange
GIVEN NAMESUlrike
FAMILY NAMEStange
SIGNATURESTANGE U
AFFILIATIONSJohannes Gutenberg University Mainz
ORCID0000-0002-4439-4115
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX1

  • So Grown Stale? On Intensifying and Emphasizing Uses of Preverbalsoin Present-Day American English

    Ulrike StangeARTICLEAmerican Speech2023References: 31

    The present study addresses the question of whether preverbal so, also known as “GenX so,” which can be used as an intensifier and as an emphasizer, is going out of fashion as a means of emphasis in present-day American English as demonstrated in scripted soap operas. The results are based on 1,357 tokens of preverbal so extracted from Mark Davies’s Corpus of American Soap Operas (2011–). These tokens create both real- and apparent-time scenarios…

  • ‘I'm so ditching school to babysit.’: A survey on native speaker use of preverbal so in present-day English

    Open AccessUlrike StangeARTICLEEnglish Today2022

    This paper focuses on the use of preverbal so in present-day English. While its use as an intensifier (meaning ‘so much’ or ‘very much’) has been attested already in Early Modern English ( OED online , s.v. so , adv. and conj., sense 15), it has only recently acquired emphatic meaning (‘truly’ or ‘definitely’, see OED online , s.v. so , adv. and conj., 2005 Draft Additions). Compare: (1) I do so love weddings. They're such joy. ( SOAP YR 2005) (2…

  • “He should so be in jail”: An Empirical Study on Preverbal So in American English

    Open AccessUlrike StangeARTICLEJournal of English Linguistics2021

    This paper explores the use of so-called GenX so as a modifier of verb phrases, as exemplified in “He should so be in jail” (SOAP, DAYS, 2005). Drawing on over 1350 relevant tokens retrieved from the Corpus of American Soap Operas (SOAP) (Davies 2011-, 100 million words from 2001-2012), the main purpose of the present study is to provide robust empirical evidence for various findings yielded by small-scale studies and by introspection. The result…

  • “Holding Grudges Is So Last Century”: The Use of GenX So as a Modifier of Noun Phrases

    Open AccessUlrike StangeARTICLEJournal of English Linguistics2020

    This article focuses on the X is so NP-construction in American English, as exemplified by “Holding grudges is so last century” (SOAP, As the World Turns, 2002). Drawing on the Corpus of American Soap Operas (Davies 2011-), the aim of this study is to provide an account of the distributional pattern of noun phrase modification with so, including preferences in modified noun phrase (NP) types and concomitant differences in the meaning of so. The a…

  • You’re So Not Going to Believe This

    Ulrike StangeARTICLEAmerican Speech2017Cited by: 2References: 23

    This article explores the use of so-called GenX so in constructions with future going to in American English, as exemplified by "Guys, you're so not going to believe what just happened" (Simone; All My Children, ABC, June 20, 2003). This study draws on the Corpus of American Soap Operas (https://corpus.byu.edu/soap/) to examine the development of emphasized going to (certainly/definitely/really going to are also considered) between 2001 and 2012.…