An Empirical Approach to Aesthetic Adjectives
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This chapter surveys some recent studies of aesthetic adjectives in theoretical and experimental linguistics, evaluates the impact of these studies on our conceptual understanding of aesthetic discourse, and discusses the prospects for future investigations. After providing some background on the semantics of adjectives, I present the experiments from Liao and Meskin (2017), which suggest that the aesthetic adjectives 'beautiful', 'ugly' and 'elegant' do not fit squarely into the standard typology of adjectives. I discuss various semantic and pragmatic factors that may be responsible for the observed results, and close with some thoughts about what the next steps of inquiry should be.
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