[Corpora-List] cheerfully unaware
From: Monika Bednarek (Monika.Bednarek@phil.uni-augsburg.de)
Date: Tue Mar 21 2006 - 02:30:47 MET
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Dear all,
I have a question about the collocation of CHEERFULLY with negative and
negated adjectives, such as:
carried on with the arrangement she was making,
cheerfully unaware of how great a change in attitude
that
and paper, she and Francis and a
cheerfully unreliable string of volunteers threw
together every month a
But her guest was
cheerfully unrepentant."I forgot -- I was
never
and you can eat the freshest of fish in
cheerfully informal, unlicensed restaurants.Take your
own wine
the style, the language are all put in
cheerfully irreverent quotation marks and they are
perceived against
The
cheerfully ramshackle atmosphere of the King's Head is
an unlikely
I was always completely but
cheerfully rotten, however, and despite various
faltering adult
"They were all
cheerfully sick, enticed by the little paper bags,
except
chef stands in good stead, his apron
cheerfully stained, a generous plate of souvlaki in
hand.
reaching the last four.No-one was more
cheerfully downhearted than their Barbarian captain Kari
Tapper,
She was just
cheerfully fat, her obesity partly disguised by the fact
that
The ristorante was
cheerfully garish, with red-checked tablecloths, plastic
flowers,
been stencilled with designs that were mildly but
cheerfully crazy so that to look at them for long made
the eyes
(from BNC)
Do these all share one meaning or are there subtle meaning differences?
And if so, how would you best paraphrase this meaning/these meanings, or
(even better) translate them into German? What kind of semantic shift
from CHEERFUL ('happy' or 'giving you a feeling of happiness', according
to OALD) is going on here?
Thanks very much - Monika Bednarek
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