Hyperbole in English: A Corpus-Based Study Of Exaggeration - Brossura

Claridge, Claudia

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ISBN 10: 1107637503 ISBN 13: 9781107637504

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Riassunto

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

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Informazioni sull?autore

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).

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1107637503
• ISBN 13: 9781107637504
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 316
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile