The aim of this paper is to make a qualitative analysis the intensifiers used in Spanish and American opinion columns. topic chosen has been Weinstein's scandal publications during next weeks by different sources. method followed will be Albelda Marco (2014) which she divides into lexical, semantical expressions. Euphemisms also considered due relationship it corpus with intensification. Conclu...

OBJECTIVES Low alcohol labels are a set of labels that carry descriptors such as 'low' or 'lighter' to denote alcohol content in beverages. There is growing interest from policymakers and producers in lower strength alcohol products. However, there is a lack of evidence on how the general population perceives verbal descriptors of strength. The present research examines consumers' perceptions o...

Sentiment analysis has undergone a shift from document-level analysis, where labels expresses the sentiment of a whole document or whole sentence, to subsentential approaches, which assess the contribution of individual phrases, in particular including the composition of sentiment terms and phrases such as negators and intensifiers. Starting from a small sentiment treebank modeled after the Sta...

This paper presents a rich annotation scheme for mentions, co-reference, meronymy, sentiment expressions, modifiers of sentiment expressions including neutralizers, negators, and intensifiers, and describes a large corpus annotated with this scheme. We describe how this corpus relates to recent, state-of-the-art work in sentiment analysis, and define the various annotation types, provide exampl...

This paper examines 11 variables commonly believed to discriminate between the verbal behavior of males and females. The analysis uses the Kraemer-Jacklin (1979) statistic to isolate and test the effects of sex of subject, sex of partner, and their interaction while controlling for between partner correlation. Results indicate that women use more justifiers, intensifiers and agreement whereas m...

Meaning-Shift unit put forward by John Sinclair is the latest theory of meaning in corpus linguistics early 21st century. In this paper, it aims to analyze units wanquan, an attempt shed light on whether valid account for behavior such a Chinese intensifier. The result illustrates that influenced categories co-selection, which semantic prosody plays decisive role, and wanquan has four types uni...