HYPERBOLE AS A PERSUASION TOOL IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE (THE CASE OF BRITISH POLITICIANS’ SPEECH)
The article investigates hyperboles as a persuasion tool in British political discourse. The corpus under analysis comprises scripts of speeches by UK Permanent Representative to the UN Karen Pierce, Prime Minister Theresa May and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson which are devoted to the incident...
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Language: | English |
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Volgograd State University
2019-11-01
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Series: | Vestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Seriâ 2. Âzykoznanie |
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Online Access: | https://l.jvolsu.com/index.php/en/archive-en/576-science-journal-of-volsu-linguistics-2019-vol-18-no-3/intercultural-communication-and-comparative-studies-of-languages/1929-golubeva-t-m-hyperbole-as-a-persuasion-tool-in-political-discourse-the-case-of-british-politicians-speech |