In:Figuring out Figuration: A cognitive linguistic account
María Sandra Peña-Cervel and Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez
[Figurative Thought and Language 14] 2022
► pp. 179–226
Chapter 5Hyperbole
Published online: 13 May 2022
https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.14.c5
https://doi.org/10.1075/ftl.14.c5
Article outline
- 5.1Defining and understanding hyperbole: An outline of descriptive and pragmatic approaches
- 5.1.1Hyperbole in rhetoric
- 5.1.2Hyperbole in psycholinguistics
- 5.1.3Hyperbole in pragmatics
- 5.1.4The need for a cognitive account of hyperbole
- 5.2The cognitive perspective
- 5.2.1Classifying hyperbole: Coding and inferencing
- 5.2.2Hyperbole as a cross-domain mapping
- 5.2.3Hyperbolic constructions
- 5.3Hyperbole-related figurativeness
- 5.3.1An account of figures related to hyperbole: Definition and scope
- 5.3.1.1Overstatement, hyperbole, and auxesis
- 5.3.1.2Understatement, meiosis, and litotes
- 5.3.2Hyperbole-related figurativeness and cognitive modeling
- 5.3.2.1Cognitive modeling in overstatement, hyperbole, and auxesis
- 5.3.2.2Cognitive modeling in understatement, meiosis, and litotes
- 5.3.1An account of figures related to hyperbole: Definition and scope
- 5.4Constraining hyperbole and related figures
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