Hyperbole Questions and Answering

Assalamu’alaikum Wr. Wb. Nice to see u again in field of semantic GAN... Hokeh, talking about semantic is never not enough as we know before. It has so many beranches that we have to recognize and comperhand in our reality. Sometimes we use it either aware or not. Studying about sematic, it means that you will learn something new in your life because it always grows and develops by appearing new terms influence a language.

Special series, the writer explains one of so many branches of semantic, that is Hyperbole and It will be pictured by three questions below:

1.      Mention 3 contemporary researches in field of hyperbole and their findings, include (title & authors)

2.      If i want to study hyperbole what books that you will recomend for me to read. Mention 3 and what make them different each other ?

3.      What is research’s trend right know in field of hyperbole and mention 2-3 article that talks about it

1.      A. The Use of Hyperbole in The Argumentation Stage

By A Francisca Snoeck Henkeman

Publisehd by University Of Amsterdam, Department Of Speech Comunication, Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric

Findings: In this paper they invistigate what role the stylistic device of hyperbole can play in arguers’ strategic maneuvers in the argumentation stage of a discussion. First, they give an analysis of general effects the use of hyperbole may have in argumentative discourse. Next, they specify how hyperbole may contribute to arguers’ dialectical and rhetorical aims in the argumentation stage of a discussion.

B. Irony, Hyperbole, Joke Banter

By Dierdre Wilison

Published by J Blochowwiak, C. Grisot, S. Durriemann & C. Laenzlinger (eds) 2017, Formal Models in the study of language: Application in Interdisciplinary Contex, 201-220. Springer.

Findings: In the last or fifteen years, following the collapse of the traditional of irony as a matter of saying one thing and meaning the opposite, a range of disparate phenomena including hyperbole, banter, understatment, jokes and rhetorical questions have been commonly treated as forms of irony in experimental literature. Drawing on recent work by Wilson and Sperber (2012a; Wilson 2013), i will argue that these phenomena are not inherently ironical, display none of the distinctive features of irony in most of their uses, and should not be seen as falling within the scope of an explanatory theory of irony.

C. HIP: A Method for Linguistic Hyperbole Identification in Discourse

By Christian Burgers, Britta C. Brugman, Kiki Y. Renardel de Lavalette & Gerard J. Steen

Published by Taylor & Francis, 27 June 2016

Findings: This article introduces the Hyperbole identification procedure (HIP), a first systematic method for identifying linguistic hyperbole in discourse. They start by comparing existing definitions of linguistic hyperbole. Based on the commonalities shared by these definitions, they provide our operational definition of hyperbole as “an expression that is more extreme than justified  given its ontological referent. “the next section argues why it is useful to identify hyperbole at the level of lexical units, and subsequently introduces the steps of HIP. They follow up with two sample analyses of HIP in practice. First, they show how to unitize and analyze one complete sample sentence. Second, they present sample analyses of a number of selected cases. Then they present data showing  that HIP can be reliably applied to a sample corpus of Dutch news texts. They end with discussing applications and implications of using HIP in corpus research.

2.      If you want to learn hyperbole, i do like recomend you to choose some books below:

a.      Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Thins That Happened

By Allie Brosh

Published by Touchstore Books, 1 January 2013

Contained: In this book, contain a combination of webcomic and blog written by Allie Brosh. It draws inspirations from “Rage Comics”, promoting a certain similarity in their shared diction and simple, almost rudimentary art.

b.      Hyperbole in English: A Corpus-Based Study of Exaggeration

By Claudia Claridge

CAMBRIDGE University Press

Contained: In this book gives us basic knowledge about characteristics, realisations, using : speaker perspective, in interaction, conventionalisation and the rhetoric of hyperbole.

c.       The 52-Storey Treehouse

By Andy Griffths

Published by Macmillan Australia, 1 September 2014

Contained:  This book is a novel book telling about Andy and Terry’s  story by applicating exaggeration terms  that can make the reader intrested to read it.

3.      Study: Hyperbole is Increasing in Science

a.      Posted by Anthony Watts

From the “everything is rebust” department.

He has long noted at WUWT that the word “ robust” has seen a significant rise in usage in climate science papers, becoming a favorite word to use when statistical spackle has been applied to climate data. Now there is evidence from a new study suggesting that observation is spot-on.

b.      A BBC story says the use of the word “robust” has gone up 15000% they write:

Despite working with facts, figures and emprical evidence, the world of science appears to have a growing addiction to hyperbole. Research at the university of Utrecht in the Netherlands looked at four decades worth of medical and scienctific publications, and found a significant upwards trend of positive words. We have all heard of those “ground –breaking” studies or “innovative” researc projects. Dr Chritiaan Vinkers- a psychiatrist at the Rudolf Magnus brain centre – was the main aouthor of another “very robust” report.

Reference:

Christian Burgers and partner. 2016. HIP: A Method for Linguitic Hyperbole Identifocation in Discourse. Amsterdam.

A Francisca Snock Henkemans. 2013. The Use of Hyperbole in Argumentation Stage. University of Amsterdam.

Claudia Claridge. Hyperbole in English. Cambridge University Press.

Dierdre Wilson. 2017. Irony, Hyperbole, Jokes and Banter. J Blochowiak and Partners.