Research has shown that by speaking the language of a new country, you learn to be more tolerate and positive of that culture. And not just that… it’ll help you understand what on earth is going on around you.Trust us, there’ll be times travelling when you won’t have a clue ...
As intensifiers spread through the community and become more frequent, not only do they lose their expressive power, but they may also lose their function as a “linguistic clue to the identity and group membership of the speaker” (Lorenz 2002, p. 143) and accordingly, need to be replaced...