Hyperbole in English: A Corpus-based Study of Exaggeration

ISBN: 9781107637504 出版年：2010 页码：317 Claudia Claridge Cambridge University Press

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.