01122nas a2200145   4500008004100000245005900041210005900100300001100159490000700170520063500177653002400812653005600836100002100892856006300913       2007                        eng d00aAdjectival Intensification in English and in Bulgarian0 aAdjectival Intensification in English and in Bulgarian  a5–140 v323 a<p>The present paper attempts to list the major devices for adjectival intensification as found in original English and American fictional texts and their Bulgarian counterparts. Intensity here is understood in a broad sense as a quantitative realization of expressivity, a scale registering a person’s emotional response to the state-of-affairs. Given this theoretical premise then, it is the securing of the pragmatic impact on the Bulgarian reader that will be of paramount importance, since it is pragmatic meaning that deals with the relationship between the linguistic sign and its user: speaker/hearer, writer/reader.</p>10aContrastive Studies10aсъпоставителни изследвания1 aMitseva, Maryana  uhttps://naum.slav.uni-sofia.bg/en/librislavici/mitseva2007