Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- 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
- Appendix 1 Modern corpora used (Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6)
- Appendix 2 Modern sources other than corpora (Chapters 2, 3, 4 and 5)
- Appendix 3 Conventionalisation in dictionaries (Chapter 6)
- Appendix 4 Corpora, dictionaries and texts used for the diachronic investigation (Chapter 6)
- Appendix 5 Sources used in Chapter 7
- References
- Index
Appendix 1 - Modern corpora used (Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- 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
- Appendix 1 Modern corpora used (Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6)
- Appendix 2 Modern sources other than corpora (Chapters 2, 3, 4 and 5)
- Appendix 3 Conventionalisation in dictionaries (Chapter 6)
- Appendix 4 Corpora, dictionaries and texts used for the diachronic investigation (Chapter 6)
- Appendix 5 Sources used in Chapter 7
- References
- Index
Summary
Sources of modern data used throughout the study
BNC = The British National Corpus, version 2 (BNC World). 2001. Distributed by Oxford University Computing Services on behalf of the BNC Consortium. Available at: http://www.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/
COLT = Corpus of London Teenage Language, compiled by Anna-Brita Stenström et al. In ICAME Collection of English Language Corpora (CD-ROM), 2nd edn, eds. Knut Hofland, Anne Lindebjerg, and Jørn Thunestvedt, The HIT Centre, University of Bergen, Norway.
FLOB = Freiburg-LOB Corpus, 1991 clone of LOB, compiled by Christian Mair et al. In ICAME Collection of English Language Corpora (CD-ROM), 2nd edn, eds. Knut Hofland, Anne Lindebjerg, Jørn Thunestvedt, The HIT Centre, University of Bergen, Norway.
LOB = London/Oslo-Bergen Corpus of British English. In ICAME Collection of English Language Corpora (CD-ROM), 2nd edn, eds. Knut Hofland, Anne Lindebjerg, Jørn Thunestvedt, The HIT Centre, University of Bergen, Norway.
SBC = Santa Barbara Corpus of Spoken American English, Part 1. 2000. By John W. Du Bois, Wallace L. Chafe, Charles Meyer and Sandra A. Thompson. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium.
SBC – Part 1 used in Chapters 3 and 4
Fourteen files; 51 different speakers (precise word count not possible).
List of files, with some of the information given in the segment information file accompanying the corpus
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Hyperbole in EnglishA Corpus-based Study of Exaggeration, pp. 268 - 274Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010