Author: Kraeva I.A.
Abstract:
The article looks into some issues of using introspection in analyzing semantics of utterances. Special attention is paid to the lexical meaning of new degree modifiers used in Modern English. The author provides illustrative examples selected from both lexicographic sources and corpus data.
Keywords: cognitive linguistics ◆ introspection ◆ introspective linguistic data ◆ self-observation ◆ linguistic intuition ◆ language feeling