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@article{item_1555931,
title = {{Literally speaking}},
author = {Israel, Michael},
language = {eng},
issn = {0378-2166},
doi = {10.1016/S0378-2166(01)00048-0},
year = {2002},
date = {2002-04},
abstract = {{Modern uses of the word literally are surveyed, and the solecistic misuse of this word as an expression of speaker commitment is shown to be a natural semantic extension of its basic metalinguistic meaning. The development appears to be typical of a large class of intensifiers, though it is argued that literally itself is only in the early stages of such an evolution. Aspects of this development are observed to run counter to well-known tendencies for meaning change to involve subjectification, and it is suggested that subjectification itself may be a special case of the ways in which originally pragmatic meanings can become conventionalized properties of a form{\textquotesingle}s lexical semantics. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.}},
journal = {{Journal of Pragmatics}},
volume = {34},
number = {4},
pages = {423--432},
}