O subiektywizacji w procesie kształtowania się intensyfikatorów (na przykładzie ogromnie) (original) (raw)

Prace Językoznawcze, 2022

Abstract

The article presents subjectivisation as the process that initiated the changes that transformed the adverb ogromnie [enormously] into an intensifier. Subjectivisation is understood as a process in which a sender communicates a message presenting objects, habits or processes, situating them on his scale of values. The fixation in the semantic structure of the unit of the language of meaning, the source of which is the speaker's evaluation is called intersubjectivisation. The linguistic material analysed comes from the Electronic Corpus of 17th- and 18th-century Polish Texts (up to 1772), the Polish Language Corpus 1830–1918 and the National Corpus of Polish. The study consisted of a contextual analysis of linguistic units' semantic and syntactic properties in the shape ogromnie. It turned out that even in the 16th century, the adverb ogromnie functioned in the meanings resulting from its etymology, that is related to the meaning of the root -grom-. In the subsequent stages of the development of the Polish language, there was a process of lexicalization, i.e. breaking the semantic link with the base adverb ogromnie. The intensifier expanded its categorical collocability compared to the adverb but limited semantic collocability and it coexists only with graduated predicates. The contemporary intensifier ogromnie has wholly lost its connection with its etymon and is an independent language unit belonging to the metatextual level of language. The historical analysis of the intensifier ogromnie has made it possible to draw both specific and more general conclusions, relating to the role of subjectivisation in the formation of the metatextual level of language. This change is semantic-pragmatic and consists of the fading of the lexical meaning and the simultaneous development of a general meaning related to the speaker's assessment of a given fragment of reality. keywords: history of Polish language, historical semantics, intensifiers, subjectivisation, intersubjectivisation

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