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Quantifying Hyperbole: Explicit Estimates of Exaggerated Utterances

open access: goldПсихолінгвістика, 2023
Purpose. People are exposed to exaggeration in some form every day. They must comprehend and interpret the hyperbole, or conversational overstatement, to which they are exposed.
Бріттані Харман   +1 more
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Hyperbole as the building block of Hausa court-songs

open access: diamondStudies in African Languages and Cultures, 2018
Hyperbolic expression is one of the most common and effective foregrounding expressions employed as a literary device in the form of eulogy across the literary genres.
Salisu Garba
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Comparing the rhetorical element “hyperbole” between two epic poems “Shahnameh” by Ferdowsi and “Garashasbnameh” by Asadi Tusi. [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات زبانی و بلاغی, 2021
The public field of poetic imagery includes major and broad topics. It involves four disputations: metonymy, metaphor, image, irony, and their alterations and branches. But among the topics of rhetoric science, several discussions can be added.
Mahmood Bashiri, Molood Shagoshtasbi
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Stretching Reality: the Function & Translation of Hyperbole in Anglophone Satirical Science Fiction Literature

open access: yesДискурс профессиональной коммуникации, 2023
This study investigates the use of hyperbole as a satirical device in English-language science fiction, examining its stylistic conveyance and translation into Russian.
A. Yu. Ievleva, D. S. Khramchenko
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Analysis of The Status of Psychological Motivations in Mutanabbi ҆s Poetic Hyperboles "Character Disorders as a Model " [PDF]

open access: yesدراسات في اللغة العربيّة وآدابها, 2021
The element of hyperbole in mutanabbi ҆s poem as one of the pioneers of poetry in Arabic literature assumes a unique status in his poems. His hyperboles are for the most part closely related to his personality, some of which have originated from the ...
Daryoush Muhammadi   +1 more
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Overstatement in Communicative Demonstrativeness: Pragmatic and Linguistic Aspects [PDF]

open access: yesАктуальные проблемы филологии и педагогической лингвистики, 2023
Overstatement plays the leading role organizing the phenomenon of communicative demonstrativeness by highlighting and translating meaningful information about the producer of the utterance.
Irina A. Tislenkova
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Hyperbolic markers in modeling hyperbole: a scenario-based account

open access: yesCírculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 2021
This article discusses hyperbolic markers in modeling hyperbole from the perspective of a scenario-based account of language use within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics.
Carla Ovejas Ramírez
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‘CRY ME A RIVER’: METAPHORIC HYPERBOLES IN THE INTERFACE BETWEEN DISCOURSE AND COGNITION

open access: greenGragoatá, 2016
This paper aims at analyzing metaphor as a frequent semantic realization of “the language of excess” (WEBB, 1993), i.e., hyperbole. The hypothesis to be explored is twofold: firstly, from a discursive perspective, hyperbole aims at transcending a ...
Solange Coelho Vereza
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GAYA BAHASA DALAM LIRIK LAGU “LUGHĀT AL-‘ALAM” KARYA HUMOOD ALKHUDHER

open access: yesAn-Nahdah Al-'Arabiyah, 2022
The song is one of the types of literary works, the song is a poem that has a meaningful stanza and has a certain style of language described by the author. The lyrics of the song Lughāt Al-'Alam describe a mother's love for her child.
Nahdia Asyifah
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Hyperbolic Figures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
It’s natural for hyperbole to mix with metaphor and irony, and other figures of speech. How do they mix together and what kind of compound, if any, arises out of the mixing?
Popa-Wyatt, Mihaela
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