Intensification in English and Spanish Communication

In this book, Nydia Flores-Ferrán offers a comprehensive examination of linguistic intensification in Spanish and English communication. Flores-Ferrán examines how intensification is defined as well as the various linguistic features, strategies, and devices we employ to escalate and amplify our oral and written communication. The book builds on a rich body of literature, exploring the conceptualization of linguistic intensification within socio-pragmatics and Persuasion Theory. This book also demonstrates the applicability of intensification in language learning by discussing techniques native speakers use to amplify the illocution of their communication.

List of contents

Chapter 1 What Is Linguistic Intensification?
Chapter 2 Empirical Research on Intensification in English and Spanish
Chapter 3 Identifying Intensifying Linguistic Behavior
Chapter 4 Intensification: Theory of Persuasion and Socio-Pragmatics
Chapter 5 How to Analyze Intensifying Elements: Features, Devices, Strategies
Chapter 6 Pedagogical Implications
Chapter 7 Intensification in Computer-Mediated Communication
Chapter 8 Ten Guiding Principles of Linguistic Intensification
Chapter 9 Concluding Remarks

About the author

Nydia Flores-Ferrán is professor emerita at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Product details

• Authors: Nydia Flores-Ferran, Nydia Flores-Ferrán
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781793639615
• ISBN: 978-1-79363-961-5
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Communication Studies, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc