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1、volumen4año2009AllorNothINg:ASEmANtICANAlySISofhyPErbolELauraCanoMoraUniversitatdeValènciaAbstract:Thispaperfocusesonhyperbole,alongneglectedformofnon-literallanguagedespiteitspervasi-venessineverydayspeech.Itaddressestheproductionprocessofexaggeration,sinceacruci
2、allimitationinfigurativelanguagetheoriesistheproductionandusageoffiguresofspeech,probablyduetotheintensiveresearcheffortontheircomprehension.Theaimistoanalysehyperbolefromasemanticperspectiveinordertodeviseasemasiologicaltaxonomywhichenablesustounderstandthenature
3、andusesofthetrope.InordertoanalyseandclassifyhyperbolicitemsacorpusofnaturallyoccurringconversationsextractedfromtheBritishNationalCorpuswasexamined.Theresultssuggestthattheevaluativeandquantitativedimen-sionsarekey,definingfeatureswhichoftenco-occurandshouldthere
4、forebepresentinanydefinitionofthisfigureofspeech.Aremarkablepreferencefornegativeaffect,auxesisandabsolutetermswhenengaginginhyperboleisalsoobserved.Keywords:figurativelanguage,hyperbole,semanticfield,corpusanalysis“Thereisnoonewhodoesnotexaggerate.Inconversation,
5、menareencumberedwithpersonalityandtalktoomuch”.(RalphWaldoEmerson)1.INTRODUCTIONTONON-LITERALLANGUAGESinceantiquityfiguresofspeechhavebeenwidelystudiedwithinrhetoric,althoughincon-temporaryrhetorictheirstudyhasbeenneglectedorrelegatedtoliterarycriticism.However,si
6、ncethe1980s,therehasbeenarenewedinterestinfigurativelanguagenotonlyinliterarystudies,butalsoinotherfieldsofresearch.Infact,researchonfigurationhasemergedasanewanddistinctdiscipline,thatoffigurativelanguagestudies.Mostofthisinterest,however,hasbeendirectedatexplain
7、inghowfiguresofspeecharecomprehended,giventheirnonliteralnature.Sincethebulkofstudieshasalmostinvariablyconcentratedonthereceptionprocess,intermsoffigureunderstanding,itisnotsurprisingthatnowadaysacruciallimitationinfigurativelanguagetheoriesistheproductionprocess
8、ofnon-literallanguage.Thus,Turner(1998:83)correctlyar-gues,“thestudyoffigure,oneoftheoldestbodiesofknowledgeinthehumansciences,remainsinouragestillinits
