METHAPORE AND
SYMBOL
HIP: A METHOD
FOR LINGUISTIC HYPERBOLE IDENTIFICATION IN DISCOURSE
Methapore and symbol Hip: a method for
linguistic hyperbole identification in discourse published by Christian Burgers, Britta C. Brugman, Kiki Y.
Renardel de Lavalette & Gerard J. Steen.
Christian
Burgers is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication Studies at
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In 2010, he defended his PhD dissertation in the
field of Communication and Information Sciences at Radboud University Nijmegen.
Since 2009, he has worked at the Department of Communication Studies, first as
a Lecturer and an Assistant Professor, and currently as an Associate Professor.
Britta C. Brugman, PhD Candidate
& Lecturer at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Britta's research focuses on
how metaphorical frames work in voters’ political decision-making. She also
teaches political science in the bachelor program Philosophy, Politics &
Economics.
Kiki Renardel de Lavalette,
Gerard J. Steen, professor
of Speech Communication, Argumentation and Rhetoric at the Department of Dutch
at the University of Amsterdam. Before then, he was professor of Language Use
and Cognition at VU University Amsterdam from 2007 through 2013, and professor
of Language and Communication at that same university from 2013 through 2014. His
main research interest is metaphor in discourse.
This
article introduces the Hyperbole Identification Procedure (HIP), a first
systematic method for identifying linguistic hyperbole in discourse. We start
by comparing existing definitions of linguistic hyperbole. Based on the
commonalities shared by these definitions, we provide our operational
definition of hyperbole as “an expression that is more
extreme than justified given its ontological referent.” The next section argues why it is useful to
identify hyperbole, as with metaphor in Metaphor Identification Procedure Vrije
Universiteit (MIPVU), at the level of lexical units, and subsequently
introduces the steps of HIP. We follow up with two sample analyses of HIP in
practice. This article used library study.
In this article, we introduced
the HIP, a method that can be used to identify linguistic. hyperbole.in corpus research. We started out with comparing existing definitions of hyperbole. Based oncommonalities of the different
approaches, we presented our operational definition of hyperboleas “an expression that is
more extreme than justified given its ontological referent.
” This definition then
formed the basis of the steps coders can take when applying Reliability analyses, finally, showed that HIP is reliable in
application when used by twotrained coders.As such, HIP can join the
growing arsenal of methodological tools like MIP (Pragglejaz Group,2007),
MIPVU (Steen et al., 2010a), and VIP (Burgers et al., 2011)
which scholars can use whenconducting corpus analyses of figurative language types.
Furthermore, by specifically choosing tomake HIP compatible with MIPVU and with VIP,
scholars interested in combinations of two ormore of these tropes can select
the procedures of interest. HIP can help scholars interested inhyperbole in corpus research in
making their codings more robust.Like any coding procedure, HIP starts out from a basic unit of
analysis, which in the case of HIP implies that hyperboles are coded at the
level of lexical units. Like metaphors, some hyperboles may also
occur a to the level so analysis. Forinstance One of the advantages of a coding procedure like HIP is that it
can bring such examples to the fore. To the best of our knowledge,
the notion of hyperbole spanning multiple lexical units has not yet been
discussed in the literature. When applying HIP, such examples are also taken
into account, because each of the four lexical units comprising the
hyperbole would be coded as hyperbolic.In
some cases, speakers may be intentionally vague or ambiguous which may make it
difficult to determine whether or not they use hyperbole (or not). Nevertheless,
the steps of HIP help the coder in
reducing such ambiguity. First, the coder is required to read the entire text
before the start of coding (step 1 of HIP) so that they get an idea of the
general position and point of the author.Second, in case the text is
under specified about the topic at hand, coders can use additional real-world
information from sources like the dictionary and Wikipedia to help them in
making their coding decisions.
HIP will increase interest in
the study of hyperbole in discourse, and stimulate corpus analysts to consider
hyperbole in their projects and analyses.
The strengthen of this article is the
researcher uses some examples and step how to method for linguistic
hyperbole identification in discourse and references.
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understand.
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