Full Description
Though "pejoration" is an important notion for linguistic analysis and theory, there is still a lack of theoretical understanding and sound descriptive analysis. In this timely collection, the phenomenon of pejoration is studied from a number of angles. It contains studies from phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, and deals with diverse languages and their variants. The collection will appeal to all those linguists with a genuine interest in locating pejoration at the grammar-pragmatics interface.
Contents
1. Preface; 2. What is pejoration, and how can it be expressed in language? (by Finkbeiner, Rita); 3. Pejoration in different linguistic domains; 4. Pejorative prosody (by Sendlmeier, Walter); 5. How do evaluative derivational meanings arise? A bit of Geforsche and Forscherei (by Dammel, Antje); 6. Quantification with pejoratives (by Gutzmann, Daniel); 7. Pejoration, normalcy conceptions and generic sentences (by d'Avis, Franz); 8. Demonstrative pejoratives (by Averintseva-Klisch, Maria); 9. Pejoration, slurring and sarcasm; 10. Slurring as insulting (by Meibauer, Jorg); 11. A multi-act perspective on slurs (by Paola Tenchini, Maria); 12. The meaning and use of slurs: An account based on empirical data (by Technau, Bjorn); 13. Pejoration via sarcastic irony and sarcasm (by Dynel, Marta); 14. Pejoration in different linguistic contexts; 15. Pejoration in contact: m-reduplication and other examples from urban German (by Wiese, Heike); 16. Bla, bla, bla in German. A pejorative construction? (by Finkbeiner, Rita); 17. Pejoratives in Korean (by Koo, Hyun Jung); 18. Pejorative aspects attributed to hearing people in signed constructed dialogue (by Fischer, Renate); 19. Index
