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Claudia Claridge, Ewa Jonsson and Merja Kytö, Intensifiers in Late Modern English: A sociopragmatic approach to courtroom discourse (Studies in English Language). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. xxiv + 330. ISBN 9781108428668.

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Claudia Claridge, Ewa Jonsson and Merja Kytö, Intensifiers in Late Modern English: A sociopragmatic approach to courtroom discourse (Studies in English Language). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. xxiv + 330. ISBN 9781108428668.

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