Luận văn A study on syntactic, semantic and pragmatic features of exaggeration in english and vietnamese

Tóm tắt Luận văn A study on syntactic, semantic and pragmatic features of exaggeration in english and vietnamese: ...s of General Linguistics – studies the nature, functions, and structure of stylistic devices. According to Galperin [5], stylistics observes not only the nature of an expressive means but also its potential capacity of being a stylistic device. Galperin defines that a stylistic device is “...expressives, directives and commissives. Perlocutionary act is used for exaggeration more than illocutionary one. Therefore, my paper pays attention to perlocutionary utterances. -14- CHAPTER 3 METHOD AND PROCEDURE 3.1 RESEARCH DESIGN AND RESEARCH METHOD This research is conducted ...s or Highlight 4.3.2. Exaggeration of Humor -20- 4.3.3. Exaggeration of Showing Compliment 4.3.4. Exaggeration of Showing Complaint 4.3.5. Exaggeration of Sympathy 4.3.6. Exaggeration of Thanking 4.3.7. Exaggeration of Irony 4.3.8. Exaggeration of Interest Table 4.4 Frequency ...