Having your cake, eating it and losing the (p)lot : the combination of proverb, hyperbole and sarcasm in (and about) Brexiters’ discourses
Can the use of rhetorical devices designed to achieve persuasion, such as metaphor, irony, proverb and hyperbole, be too persuasive, i.e., overshoot the communicative aims of the speaker? More specifically, can the combination of such devices be ‘too much of a good thing’ because it commits speakers...
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Observatoire de la société britannique
2022
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