Search results for "hyperbole"
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Graphic hyperboles and critical dystopia in Miguel Brieva's drawings
2020
Dorothée CHOUITEM, Louis IMPERIALE, Joanna WILK-RACIĘSKA (coord); International audience; Dans les dessins de Miguel Brieva (Séville, 1974), l’humour participe assurément d’un exercice de déconstruction. Critique, moqueur, destructeur, son geste graphique se complait dans la propension à l’exagération, à l’hyperbole et au « superlatif ». L’intention est de mettre au jour les nouvelles formes de violence de la période présente de l’hypercapitalisme. La félicité n’étant guère questionneuse, c’est le dessin, en tant qu’outil de monstration, qui sera chargé de présenter les contreparties de nos jouissances acquises. Les images auront ici pour ambition de participer au renversement des insoutena…
Points massiques, espace des sphères et « hyperbole »
2015
The use of massic points permits to define a branch of a hyperbola in the Euclidean plane using a Rational Quadratic Bézier Curve. In the space of spheres, a circular cone, a circular cylinder, a torus, a pencil of spheres or a Dupin cyclide is represented by a conic. If the kind of the pencil is Poncelet or if the canal surface is a circular cone, a spindle torus, a spindle or a horned Dupin cyclide, the curve is a circle which is seen as a hyperbole. The limit points of the pencil or the singular points of the Dupin cyclide can be determined using the asymptotes of this circle. In this article, we show that the use of massic points simplifies the modelization of these pencils or these Dup…
On the relation of irony, understatement, and litotes
2016
The aim of this paper is to clarify the distinctive and the shared features of the three phenomena: irony, understatement, and litotes. These rhetorical figures have been defined as synonymous, distinct or overlapping in various accounts. This indicates an interrelation but also a need for clearer definitions. Here, each of these rhetorical figures is defined via two jointly necessary conditions. This approach sharpens the categories, enables clear-cut distinctions and helps to explain cases of overlap. German corpus data and examples from the literature as a basis, allow differentiating between cases of understatement as a means of irony, and cases of litotes as a means of understatement. …
ALL OR NOTHING: A SEMANTIC ANALYSIS OF HYPERBOLE
2009
This paper focuses on hyperbole, a long neglected form of non-literal language despite its pervasiveness<br />in everyday speech. It addresses the production process of exaggeration, since a crucial limitation in<br />figurative language theories is the production and usage of figures of speech, probably due to the intensive<br />research effort on their comprehension. The aim is to analyse hyperbole from a semantic perspective in order<br />to devise a semasiological taxonomy which enables us to understand the nature and uses of the trope. In<br />order to analyse and classify hyperbolic items a corpus of naturally occurring conversations extracted from<br …