Hyperbole in english: a corpus-based study of exaggeration
Auteur :
Claridge, Claudia
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521766357
Date de publication :
25 nov. 2010
Dimensions :
23,3 x 16,0 x 2,0 cm
Poids :
640 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
The first investigation of hyperbole in English, drawing on genres such as spoken language, TV, newspapers, and literary works. Using approaches from semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis and classical rhetoric, it explores both speaker- and addressee-related aspects of hyperbole, and shows it to be an important contributor to language change.