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has different experiences of the world and an individually shaped under-
standing of a concept, the methods for the investigation of experiential
meaning need to go beyond abstract conceptual approaches, towards usage-
based ones. This analysis shows that employing sociolinguistic methods of
research helps to manage (qualify and quantify) the individuality of linguis-
tic observations.
Impressive Reported impressive
Terrible Overlap Great / Impressive
Reported great Overlap Impressive / Terrible(^) Great
Figure 2. Age-related variation of the usage of the adjective awesome
up to 18 19-30 31-60 over 60
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- 80
0.60
0.40
0.20
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