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Adjectives

Contents

1. Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………………3
2. Theory…………………………………………………………………………………………………....4
3. Analysis…………………………………………………………………………………………………..7
3.1 Methodology…………………………………………………………………………………………..7
3.2 Research……………………………………………………………………………………………….9
4. Conclusions……………………………………………………………………………………………...20
5. References……………………………………………………………………………………………….21
Appendix…………………………………………………………………………………………………...22

1. Introduction

The objective of this course paper is to discuss the semantic features of adjectives in Afro-American speeches. The circumstances of choosing the Black American speakers were not random. Both speakers are members of the same ethnic group and either of them talk about their situation in America of the day. Both of them are unfabled. The first speaker lives at the beginning of the 20th century (about 1906s). She tells about black people’s life at that point. The second speaker is contemporary politician in the USA. He lives in a society that has already changed substantially therefore his attitudes differ from the first speaker’s attitudes. These speeches form the corpus of this course paper. The length of the corpus is 6,001 words and 33,616 characters overall. Both of the speeches are available in Appendix at the end of the paper. All adjectives are highlighted in bold and capital letters of other type and color.
The purpose of the current course paper is to analyze different types and uses of adjectives in the selected corpus. The main aims of this work are: to count all adjectives in the corpus; to group all adjectives according to their semantic category; to compare the statistical data of the adjectives; to try to reveal the significance of the adjectives in the contexts of the speeches. This work is both descriptive and comparative. It explains the role of adjectives in written discourse and the point of comparison shows how adjectives help to achieve the goals that the speakers wanted to...