Peculiarities of Hyperbole in J. Swift’s Works

Our mind used to express our feelings and thoughts towards the world that surrounds us. A special code is the main means in expressing people’s thoughts in the language owing to which the people can understand and communicate to each other. In the context of the language –as –a –system people use different types of means of expression that are known as manners of expression, they are called also stylistic devices or figures of speech.

Introduction ……………………………………………………………………………………..2
CHAPTER I: Hyperbole as a vivid Stylistic Device ……………………………………………4
1.1 Definitions of Stylistics ……………………………………………………………………4
1.2 The notion of Stylistic Devices and its Classification …………………………………….7
1.3 Definition of Style and its Classification …………………………………………………11
1.4 Functional Styles of the English language ………………………………………………..14
1.4.1 The Belles-Lettres Style as a part of Linguistics ……………………………………18
1.5 Hyperbole as a Lexical Stylistic Device and its types……………………………………..20
CHAPTER II: Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Hyperboles in J. Swift’s works………25
2.1 Analysis of Hyperbole in “Gulliver’s Travels”…………………………………………...25
2.1.1 Hyperbole classified according to novelty (Y. M. Skrebnev) ………………………...25
2.1.2 Hyperbole classified according to the part of speech………………………………...
2.2 Analysis of Hyperbole in “Battle of the Book”………………………………………….
2.2.1 Hyperboles classified according to novelty (Y. M. Skrebnev) …...............................
2.2.2 Hyperboles classified according to the part of speech ………………………………
2.3 Quantitative Analysis of Hyperboles in J. Swift’s works ………………………………..
Conclusion …………………………………………………………………………………….
Bibliography…………………………………………………………………………………..
Appendix……………………………………………………………………………………...
Glossary of Linguistic Terms …………………………………………………………..
Corpus Linguistics……………………………………………………………………...