Me not a good kisser, that’s like Mother Theresa, not a good mother : an analysis of the hyperbolic like comparison construction.

Rosca, Andreea

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Me not a good kisser, that’s like Mother Theresa, not a good mother : an analysis of the hyperbolic like comparison construction.

dc.contributor.author	Rosca, Andreea
dc.date.accessioned	2025-04-08T12:19:17Z
dc.date.available	2025-04-08T12:19:17Z
dc.date.issued	2024
dc.description.abstract	Abstract: Given the scarcity of research on hyperbole and simile in Cognitive Linguistics, it is important to explore these figures of speech, whose interaction has only been tangentially addressed in this field. Thus, the main aim of the study is to provide a detailed description of hyperbolic like comparison constructions by examining the structural and conceptual diversity of the source and target domains, as well as the characteristics of the third component of hyperbolic similes, namely the elaboration. With this objective in mind, we carried out an analysis of 120 examples of hyperbolic similes retrieved from the comedy sitcom Friends (1994-2004). Our findings show that the source domains of hyperbolic like comparison constructions are both structurally and conceptually more complex than the target domains.	en
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dc.identifier.citation	Rosca, Andreea. “Me Not a Good Kisser, that’s Like Mother Theresa, Not a Good Mother. An Analysis of the Hyperbolic Like Comparison Construction: ”. International Journal of English Studies, vol. 24, no. 2, Dec. 2024, pp. 175-93, doi:10.6018/ijes.582331.	es
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.6018/ijes.582331
dc.identifier.issn	1989-6131 (Internet)
dc.identifier.issn	1578-7044
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/153121
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones.	es
dc.relation	This publication is part of the R&D&i project Grant PID2020-118349GB-I00 funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033.	en
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess	es
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Figurative Language	en
dc.subject	Hyperbole	en
dc.subject	Simile	en
dc.subject	Hyperbolic like Comparison Construction	en
dc.subject	Elaboration	en
dc.subject	TV series	en
dc.subject.other	CDU::8- Lingüística y literatura	es
dc.title	Me not a good kisser, that’s like Mother Theresa, not a good mother : an analysis of the hyperbolic like comparison construction.	en
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
dspace.entity.type	Publication	es