Hyperbole in English: A Corpus-Based Study Of Exaggeration (Studies in English Language) - Softcover

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Claridge, Claudia

 
9781107637504: Hyperbole in English: A Corpus-Based Study Of Exaggeration (Studies in English Language)
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ISBN 10: 1107637503 ISBN 13: 9781107637504
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

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

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About the Author

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).

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1107637503
ISBN 13 
9781107637504
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
316

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