PRAGMATIC MODELS OF INTENSIFICATION IN ENGLISH RUSSIAN AND UZBEK FICTION

Abstract

Research on intensification has developed unevenly in English, Russian, and Uzbek linguistics. English scholarship has usually described intensifiers as degree modifiers and traced their rapid renewal in usage. Russian studies have more often treated intensity as a functional semantic category connected with expressiveness, evaluation, and discourse type. Uzbek scholarship has approached the problem through pragmalinguistics, text interpretation, and communicative intention. This article reviews these lines of work and considers what they offer for the study of fiction. The comparison shows that literary intensification cannot be reduced to adverbial amplification alone. It emerges through lexical choice, repetition, phraseology, contextual implication, and the relation between narrator, character, and reader.