The article aims to find the type of language style and meanings implied in advertisement. data were taken from advertisements Now! Bali magazine was published May 2018 June 2018. They analyzed using descriptive qualitative method theory (Wells, 2009) meaning (Keraf, 2006). result show that there are seven types applied them including similes, personification, metonymy, alliteration, assonance,...

The article is focused upon the analysis of stylistic means, devices by which Alan Bradley achieves comic effect in novel “Sweetness at Bottom Pie”. In recent decades, problem creation and linguistic means its expression works fiction has been object attention many researchers. However, until now, used authors humorous texts to create a express an individual worldview position have not sufficie...

The phrase 'big data' has arrived in today's lexicon with great fanfare and some degree of hyperbole. Generally speaking, big data refer to data sets that are too complex to be successfully interrogated using standard statistical software. A wide variety of business sectors has utilized big data to garner competitive advantage within their respective markets. Medicine and nephrology, in particu...

(How) Can the use of hyperbole in metaphorical idioms and scenarios contribute to an increase emotionalisation public debates? Using a research corpus quotations from British politicians speeches interviews press texts 2016-2020, this paper investigates hyperbolic formulations Brexit-related applications proverb You cannot have your cake eat it related national liberation, which appear strongly...

Glucokinase is a monomeric protein under native and denaturating conditions yet presents a sigmoidal saturation function for glucose. These peculiarities suggested the possibility that polymerization occurs under assay conditions. Thus the apparent molecular weight of glucokinase was determined by gel filtration at 4°C and at 30°C in the presence of substrates and products, singly and in combin...

A letter by Lucien Herr, a highly regarded leading French intellectual at the time of World War I, provides capsule portraits of chemists such as Gabriel Bertrand, Paul Lebeau, Charles Moureu, and Georges Urbain. It makes us better aware of who they were and of how their contemporaries saw their work, which had much to do with their personalities, whether congenial or abrasive. This article is ...

The impact of Greece is typified by the hyperbole of Sir Henry Main: “Except the blind forces of nature, nothing moves in this world which is not Greek in its origin.” Including the adoption of Egyptian and other earlier cultures by the Greeks, we find their patrimony in all phases of modern life. Handicrafts, mining techniques, engineering, trade, governmental regulation of commerce and more h...

One of the most puzzling and important facts about communication is that people do not always mean what they say; speakers often use imprecise, exaggerated, or otherwise literally false descriptions to communicate experiences and attitudes. Here, we focus on the nonliteral interpretation of number words, in particular hyperbole (interpreting unlikely numbers as exaggerated and conveying affect)...