We are reading a paper by Beltrama on Intensification, gradability and social perception: the case of totally.

Abstract
The notion of social meaning, widely investigated in sociolinguistics, is
rarely considered in experimental semantics, mainly due to the assumption that this
type of meaning is relatively independent from the semantic properties of its carrier.
Following a recent strand of inquiry (Acton and Potts (2014), Glass (2015)), this
paper aims to fill this gap by exploring the role of semantic and pragmatic factors
in determining the salience of the social meaning of a linguistic expression. Relying
on a social perception task, it is shown that listeners perceive the social meaning
of the intensifier totally − measured in terms of Solidarity and Status attributes
− as particularly prominent in situations in which the morpheme combines with
a commitment scale provided by the pragmatics, as opposed to when it combines
with a scale lexically supplied by the subsequent predicate. This evidence suggests
that listeners keep track of semantic information when making social evaluations
about speech, pointing to social perception as a novel methodology for research in
experimental semantics.