EMOTIVE LANGUAGE IN DISCOURSE: FUNCTIONAL PATTERNS AND CONTEXTUAL MEANINGS
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Emotive language plays a central role in discourse by expressing attitudes, evaluations, and interpersonal meanings. Although previous research has explored emotive expressions from semantic and pragmatic perspectives, their functional patterns and contextual variability remain underexamined. This study investigates emotive language as a dynamic meaning-making resource, focusing on how emotive means operate across discourse contexts. Using qualitative discourse analysis, spoken and written texts are examined to identify recurrent emotive forms and their functions. The findings show that emotive means function flexibly to intensify or mitigate meaning, signal stance, and manage interpersonal relations. The study contributes to discourse and functional linguistics by highlighting the context-dependent nature of emotive language in meaning construction.
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