Hyperbole in English: a corpus-based study of exaggeration
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Titel: Hyperbole in English
Autor: Claridge, Claudia
Jahr: 2011
Contents
List of figures page x
List of tables xi
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction i
The characteristics of hyperbole 4
2.1 A preliminary definition 4
2.2 Gradability and intensification 7
2.3 Context 12
2.4 An encyclopedic approach to meaning 21
2.5 The problem of literal meaning 27
2.6 Vagueness and hyperbolic interpretation 32
2.7 Summing up: a revised definition 37
Realisations of hyperbole 40
3.1 Basic and composite hyperbole 40
3.2 Hyperbolic forms 44
3.2.1 Single-word hyperbole 49
3.2.2 Phrasal hyperbole 52
3.2.3 Clausal hyperbole 55
3.2.4 Numerical hyperbole 58
3.2.5 The role of the superlative 62
3.2.6 Comparison 64
3.2.7 Repetition 66
Using hyperbole: the speaker perspective 71
4.1 Frequency of hyperbolic expressions 71
4.2 Hyperbole and subjectivity 74
4.2.1 Expression of self I: encoding and transporting
emotional attitude 77
4.2.1.1 Speaker characteristics 88
4.2.2 Expression of self II: self-presentation 91
4.2.2.1 Creative hyperbole 98
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viii Contents
4.3 Modulating hyperbole 102
4.3.1 Downtoning and emphasising 102
4.3.2 Reformulations and self-contradictions in
4.4 Explicit hyperbole: signalling and metalinguistic
comment 117
Hyperbole in interaction 130
5.1 Understanding hyperbole 130
5.2 Hyperbole: reactions and interactions 143
5.2.1 Competitive exaggeration: insulting
and boasting 158
5.3 Face and politeness 161
Conventionalisation 170
6.1 Conventional hyperbole 170
6.2 Hyperbole and semantic change 174
6.2.1 Conditions of communicative behaviour 175
6.2.2 Mechanisms and evidence 177
6.3 Routinisation: diachronic case studies 179
6.3.1 Age 180
6.3.2 Load 184
6.3.3 Thousand 188
6.3.4 Awful(ly) 193
6.3.5 Die, dead and death 197
6.3.6 Starve 207
6.4 Results and interpretations 209
The rhetoric of hyperbole 216
7.1 Hyperbole as a persuasive device 217
7.1.1 Rhetorical theory 217
7.1.2 Political language 219
7.2 Hyperbole and humour 232
7.3 Literary uses of hyperbole 246
Conclusion 263
Appendix 1 Modern corpora used
(Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6) 268
Appendix 2 Modern sources other than corpora
(Chapters 2, 3, 4 and 5) 275
Appendix 3 Conventionalisation in dictionaries
(Chapter 6) 276
Contents ix
Appendix 4 Corpora, dictionaries and texts used for the
diachronic investigation (Chapter 6) 281
Appendix 5 Sources used in Chapter 7 284
References 287
Index 299 |
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