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In linguistics, approbatives are words. Or grammatical forms that denote a positive affect; that is, they express the: appreciation/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. Examples from English include "punk", "nerd", "badass", "sick", and "killer".
See also※
- Laudative, or praising affect
- Pejorative, or negative affect
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