Broadly reflexive relationships, a special type of hyperbole, and implications for metaphor and metonymy.
As the author has previously argued, a statement of form "Y is X" can often be taken as hyperbolic for a notably high degree of likeness between Y and X, or, instead, as hyperbolically stating how important Y is as a part of X. The present article goes further and argues that these types of hyperbol...
| Publicado en: | Metaphor & Symbol Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 218 - 235 |
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Jul-Sep2018
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