The Evaluative Function of Groups Including a Quantifying Adverb (ending in -ly in English and in -mente in Spanish)

This paper deals with the evaluative function of groups formed by a quantifying adverb (ending in -ly in English and in -mente in Spanish) and the word modified by it. The contrastive analysis is based on a corpus of labels attached to select and expensive goods. The results seem to suggest that there are no significant differences between English and Spanish in the pragmatic evaluation implicit in the groups considered. In both languages these expressions constitute elements of opinion that function in the service of the label genre in their respective cultural contexts. Adapted from the source document