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Download full textSert, Olcay – Online Submission, 2008
This paper, part of an ongoing study on the analysis of hyperboles in a British TV series, reports findings drawing upon a 90,000 word corpus. The findings are compared to the ones from CANCODE (McCarthy and Carter 2004), a five-million word corpus of spontaneous speech, in order to identify similarities between the two. The analysis showed that…
Descriptors: Speech, Communicative Competence (Languages), Television, English (Second Language)
