%0 Journal Article %T A Pragama-Linguistic Study of Hyperbole in English Political Discourse %J Journal of Garmian University %I زانکۆی گەرمیان %Z 23100087 %A Al-Dalawi, Younis Ibrahim %A Al-Mahdawi, Abeer O. %D 2019 %\ 03/01/2019 %V 6 %N 5th Conferance of Human sciences %P 1047-1059 %! A Pragama-Linguistic Study of Hyperbole in English Political Discourse %R 10.24271/GARMIAN.5THC73 %X Within figurative language research, tropes such as metaphor and irony have received thegreatest amount of attention, while other non-literal forms, like hyperbole, have beenrelatively ignored as a result of such intensive research effort.Although hyperbole has been, since antiquity, one of the many figures of speech discussedwithin the general framework of rhetoric, the emphasis has been primarily laid on definingand classifying this trope. In contemporary language research, the paucity of studiesaddressing hyperbole is most notable, probably because in other disciplines it has beenconsidered a classic trope whose study belongs to that of rhetoric. Thus, no serious attentionhas been paid to the study of hyperbole in the domains of linguistics, psychology, philosophyor literary criticism. Most of the empirical work on exaggeration has involved comparisons offrequency and use in different cultures.This study focuses on the notion of hyperbole in political speeches, and attempts to offer itselfas a tentative contribution to the field of figurative language and political discourse analysis.Throughout the study hyperbole will be used synonymously with exaggeration andoverstatement.The present study aims at finding out how hyperbolic expressions are identified and presentedin English political discourse at linguistic and pragmatic levels. %U https://jgu.garmian.edu.krd/article_91702_db2a7ed924e4d2f8c6021b105c689516.pdf