“There's millions of them”: hyperbole in everyday conversation

2003/11/27 by Michael McCarthy, Ronald Carter · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Categorization, perception, and language #Language, Metaphor, and Cognition #Linguistics and Discourse Analysis

paper · doi:10.1016/s0378-2166(03)00116-4

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Citations

• Figures of speech: Figurative expressions and the management of topic transition in conversation

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