Register-specific features were identified in terms of the evaluative semantics of this pattern, the associated clauses and the agents of evaluated clauses. This study investigates the introductory it pattern (as in it is important that the technique looks effective) in six varied registers in the British National Corpus (BNC), exploring how it is used to construct evaluation and social interaction in different contexts of situation. The findings of the study may have implications both for language classrooms and for more specialized fields, such as media studies. We also consider the nominal element the adjectives in question collocate with, seeking to provide an account as to their differences in English. 2014) in the academic and the news registers: the “British Academic Written English Corpus”, the “Cambridge Academic English Corpus”, the “English Language Newspapers Corpus”, the “Brexit WR Corpus”, and the “English Timestamped JSI Corpus 2020–10”. In this corpus study, we focus on three adjectival emphasisers, flagrant, blatant, and sheer, and examine their use in adjective + noun collocations across a variety of English corpora on the Sketch Engine tool (Kilgarriff et al. (Bednarek, Caple 2014), the broad range of linguistic means encoding intensification, thereby foregrounding a given phenomenon, presents a considerable interest. Meanwhile, given the significance of the media in the present world and the ever-growing prevalence of the notion of news values, outlining the criteria conducive to a message becoming news and including values such as negativity, superlativeness, prominence, timeliness, proximity, etc. Due to its free-adjoining nature, the category of adjuncts is generally viewed as somewhat peripheral to the forefront of grammatical relations.
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