Approbative
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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. In linguistics, approbatives are words or grammatical forms that denote a positive affect; that is, they express the appreciation or approval of the speaker. Sometimes a term may begin as a pejorative word and eventually be adopted in an approbative sense. In historical linguistics, this phenomenon is known as amelioration (e.g., "punk").
See also
- Laudative, or praising affect
- Pejorative, or negative affect
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