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Hyperbole in English

Paperback
Published : Thursday 17 April 2014
ISBN : 9781107637504
Price : €37.43


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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.



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