Claudia Claridge

Hyperbole in English

A Corpus-Based Study of Exaggeration

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Produktbeschreibung

The first investigation of hyperbole in English, drawing on authentic data from spoken conversation, TV, newspapers, and literary works.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9781107637504
• ISBN-10: 1107637503
• Artikelnr.: 40718823

Autorenporträt

Claudia Claridge is Chair in English Linguistics at the Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany. She is one of the compilers of the Lampeter Corpus of Early Modern English Tracts and is the author of Multi-word Verbs in Early Modern English (2000), based on the above corpus. Her main research interests lie in the fields of historical linguistics, pragmatics, discourse studies, and corpus linguistics. Within these fields, she has published articles on such diverse topics as irony, similes/comparison, superlatives, questions, conditionals, and discourse deixis. She has also contributed articles to various recent handbooks, such as the Handbook of Corpus Linguistics (2008) and the Handbook of Historical Pragmatics (2010).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The characteristics of hyperbole
3. Realisations of hyperbole
4. Using hyperbole: the speaker perspective
5. Hyperbole in interaction
6. Conventionalisation
7. The rhetoric of hyperbole
Conclusion.