Hyperbole in English: A Corpus-based Study of Exaggeration
- Author / Editor
- Claridge, Claudia.
Hyperbole in English: A Corpus-based Study of Exaggeration
- Published
- Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- Physical Description
- xiii, 301 pp.
- Description
- Uses CT as a source of data for a linguistic study of hyperbole, particularly for diachronic case studies in Chapter Six. Charts Chaucer's hyperbolic use of a few, selected words. In Chapter Seven, suggests that Chaucer uses hyperbole in GP to portray pilgrims as "ideal 'types'" rather than "individuals."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
- Canterbury Tales--General
- General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales