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Publication details [#64389]

Steen, Gerard, Christian Burgers and Kiki Y. Renardel de Lavalette. 2018. Metaphor, hyperbole, and irony: Uses in isolation and in combination in written discourse. Journal of Pragmatics 127.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

This paper explores how metaphor, hyperbole, and irony are employed in isolation and combination, conducting a corpus analysis of Dutch economic news discourse. Typical metaphor-hyperbole combinations diverge from their use in isolation. Irony appeared associated with hyperbole, yet not with metaphor. Combinations of the three tropes reflected conventional rather than new word use.