Abstract

A Pragmatic Study of Figures of Speech in Mark Twain's Buying Gloves in Gibraltar

Nada Kadhim Hussein

Volume: 12 Issue: 1 2022

Abstract:

Writers, especially men of letters use certain linguistic expressions such as metaphor, simile, metonymy… etc. in order to add flavour to their writings and to attract the reader’s attention to the ideas they want to convey through such use, or to maximize the stylistic effectiveness of their writings. These figures are not interpreted the same way like other linguistic items, because they do not convey the meaning of their linguistic components put together. Rather they have certain culture-specific meanings or some creative meanings invented by people with special linguistic knack and mental creativity.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v12i01.017

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