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"Mummy, I love you like a thousand ladybirds": Reflections on the emergence of hyperbolic effects and the truth of hyperboles

he authors define, typologise and analyse examples of hyperbole from a cognitive linguistic point of view, or more specifically from the point of view of mental space theory, as developed by Fauconnier and Turner, and Michael Israel’s work on semantic scalarity or scalar reasoning. Their chapter tries provide an answer to two related questions concerning hyperbole: Can hyperbole be regarded as a trope or a figure? And: Can hyperbolic expressions be considered as just another case of flouting one or more of Gricean maxims (notably the maxims of quality and quantity) in rhetoric? The answers to these questions are necessarily very complex, but can be summarised as follows: pure hyperbole is hardly possible as such, as hyperbolic effects are a basically contextually induced and pragmatically embedded phenomenon. Hyperbolic effects can be identified as such when taking into account the expectations of the recipient and the communicative aims of the producer of the utterance, which also means that the problem of the truth of hyperboles should be approached from the perspective of the basic interpretation possibilities of a text as a whole.

conceptual integration; figure; hyperbole; mental space; metaphor; metonymy; scalar reasoning

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