Franz d’Avis

List of John Benjamins publications in which Franz d’Avis is involved.

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d’Avis, Franz 2016 Pejoration, normalcy conceptions and generic sentences Pejoration, Finkbeiner, Rita, Jörg Meibauer and Heike Wiese (eds.), pp. 103–118 | Article
Pejorative statements are often based on generic sentences. But what makes generic sentences so suitable for expressing pejoration? This article discusses the relevant properties of generics and their relation to a speaker’s normalcy conceptions (NC), i.e. to what a speaker considers to be normal w. read more
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