[Corpora-List] cheerfully unaware

Tue Mar 21 11:47:25 UTC 2006

Dear Monika
I suspect this is related to "Ignorance is Bliss" > "blissful 
ignorance", "blissfully ignorant", "ignorant bliss", etc
Ironies We Live By?
Best
Ramesh

At 01:30 21/03/2006, Monika Bednarek wrote:
>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, 
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>unaware of how great a change in attitude that
>
>and paper, she and Francis and 
>a 
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>unreliable string of volunteers threw together every month a
>
>But her guest 
>was 
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>unrepentant."I forgot -- I was never
>
>and you can eat the freshest of fish 
>in 
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>informal, unlicensed restaurants.Take your own wine
>
>the style, the language are all put 
>in 
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>irreverent quotation marks and they are perceived against
>
>The 
><http://es-otto.unizh.ch/cgi-binbnc2/disp6.pl?lemmaScheme=lancaster&thMode=M545%B7332%AA%AAAafter%B7P0%B7L%B7T%B7H545%AA%AAP45%B7500%B7479%AA%AAP50%B7450%B7437%AA%AAP50%B7400%B7387%AA%AAP50%B7350%B7341&qname=hq000342&ot=after&queryID=mbednarek11%20>cheerfully 
>ramshackle atmosphere of the King's Head is an unlikely
>
>I was always completely 
>but 
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>rotten, however, and despite various faltering adult
>
>"They were 
>all 
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>sick, enticed by the little paper bags, except
>
>chef stands in good stead, his 
>apron 
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>stained, a generous plate of souvlaki in hand.
>
>reaching the last four.No-one was 
>more 
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>downhearted than their Barbarian captain Kari Tapper,
>
>She was 
>just 
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>fat, her obesity partly disguised by the fact that
>
>The ristorante 
>was 
><http://es-otto.unizh.ch/cgi-binbnc2/disp6.pl?lemmaScheme=lancaster&thMode=M545%B7332%AA%AAAafter%B7P0%B7L%B7T%B7H545%AA%AAP45%B7500%B7479%AA%AAP50%B7450%B7437%AA%AAP50%B7400%B7387%AA%AAP50%B7350%B7341&qname=hq000342&ot=after&queryID=mbednarek11%20>cheerfully 
>garish, with red-checked tablecloths, plastic flowers,
>
>been stencilled with designs that were mildly 
>but 
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>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

Ramesh Krishnamurthy
Lecturer in English Studies
School of Languages and Social Sciences
Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, UK
Tel: +44 (0)121-204-3812
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http://www.aston.ac.uk/lss/staff/krishnamurthyr.jsp 
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