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Hyperbole in English: A Corpus-based Study of Exaggeration - Studies in English Language Claridge, Claudia (Universitat Duisburg–Essen)
Hyperbole in English: A Corpus-based Study of Exaggeration - Studies in English Language
Claridge, Claudia (Universitat Duisburg–Essen)
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.
316 pages, 11 b/w illus. 26 tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 25, 2010 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521766357 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 316 |
| Dimensions | 158 × 236 × 21 mm · 639 g |
| Language | English |