Boosters as Hyperbole in Pakistani English Newspaper Editorials: A Corpus Based Study
Boosters as Hyperbole in Pakistani English Newspaper Editorials
Keywords:
boosters as hyperbole, Pakistani English newspapers, editorials, Corpus-based studyAbstract
Hyperbole is obvious and intentional exaggeration which is usually created by using the feature of boosters. In the present corpus based study, booster as hyperbole has been studied in the Pakistani English newspaper editorials. The purpose of this study is to calculate the frequency of this feature i.e. boosters in Pakistani English newspapers editorials and to find out its uses in terms of the effects on the readers of these editorials. For this two popular newspapers were used in this research and two hundred and fifty editorials from each of them has been used in this corpus based study. An assistance from Hyland’s 2005 model has been taken and the software used to conduct this research is Antconc 3.5.9 to calculate the frequency of one word, two words and last but not the least three words boosters. The findings of this study of boosters as hyperbole in Pakistani English newspaper editorials suggested that one word boosters were most frequent and then three words booster (although less in number) ranked send in frequency and at last there were two words boosters. Moreover, regarding their use, it was seen that writers use boosters to create a hyperbolic effect and influence their readers. To put in a nutshell, it was decent study which can form the base of furthers studies on number of different researches and students can also learn from it that how to use this feature of booster to create exaggerating and influencing effects on the audience.
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