The Japanese expressive modifier baka ‘stupid’
An evaluation of the individual and the situation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22159271 |
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| Authors | Osamu Sawada (0000-0003-1247-0862, Kobe University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5924 |
| Publication date | 2025-05-07 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2473-8689 • E-ISSN: 2473-8689 |
| Publisher | Linguistic Society of America (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3765/plsa.v10i1.5924 |
| OpenAlex | W4410312777 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
The English noun-modifying expressive modifier damn can express notonly a speaker’s negative attitude toward the target expressed in a noun but also the speaker’s negative attitude toward an entire proposition (=propositional reading)(e.g., Potts 2005; Gutzmann 2019). In this study, I investigate the Japanese noun-modifying expressive modifier baka ‘stupid’, and argue that unlike the English expressive modifier damn, it simultaneously conveys a negative attitude toward an individual expressed in a noun and an entire event within a single reading. This paper shows variations in and proposes a new typology of expressive modifiers
Linguistics · Nominalization · Noun · Noun phrase · Proposition · Typology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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