10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LITOTIC»
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litotic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
litotic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Aspects of Culture in Second Language Acquisition and ...
In ELRA the litotic structures were distributed over 38 articles (19%), with the
highest frequency of 3 hits in 2 articles, and 2 occurrences in four other articles.
The remaining 32 articles contained only one instance of litotes each. By contrast
, the ...
Janusz Arabski, Adam Wojtaszek, 2011
2
How to Kill a Dragon : Aspects of Indo-European Poetics: ...
Indo-European qualifier formulas have two structures, litotic and non-litotic. The
litotic has the structure Argument + Negated Counter- Argument, Aussage plus
negierte Gegenaussage, in the words of its formulator Helmut Humbach (1959):
girt ...
Calvert Watkins Professor of Linguistics and the Classics Harvard University, 1995
3
Pretending to Communicate
Either the addresser clearly believes that the sentence with a stronger item is
false, or he chooses to make an understatement (a 'litotic' utterance). In Einstein's
letter, the sequences conceivable— though much less certain (line 15) and only ...
4
Nietzsche, Metaphor, Religion
However, on this last issue of the intensive display of attitude in the subjective
register of Nietzsche's text, Magnus, Stewart, and Mileur make an incisive point
on the predominance of the hyperbolic over the litotic trope in Nietzsche's text,
and ...
5
Milton, Rights and Liberties
This is why Wordsworth, in imitating Milton for his Prelude, waxes so litotic. There
is good and there is bad litotes; it is a risky manoeuvre. But in Latin litotes may
work differently. There may be something litotic about Latin itself, seeing it can ...
Christophe Tournu, Neil Forsyth, 2007
Everyone who has a manager knows what that litotic brachylogy always manager
knows what that litotic brachylogy always manager knows what that litotic
brachylogy always sounds like. You learn in the end to pick out the sounds like.
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Patterns and Meanings in Discourse: Theory and practice in ...
In understatement or litotic irony, the evaluator evaluates an entity as little to
imply, the opposite, that it is in reality a lot, that is, it simply states: N1 (dictum):
Someone understates a value; evaluates something as a little. N2 (implicatum): ...
Alan Partington, Alison Duguid, Charlotte Taylor, 2013
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Brand Equity Planning with Structuralist Rhetorical Semiotics:
Perhaps one of the most insightful passages from Greimas's Maupassant that is
strongly suggestive of the particular role performed by rhetorical figures in
bringing about textual signification, concerns the function of litotic expressions:
What ...
However, the litotic use is noted in the glossary of the Heyne-Schiicking Beowulf
edition (1961; glossary, s.v. "lyt"). One may compare lines 2897b-99 on the
unnamed messenger's report of the king's death (italics added): Lyt swigode
niwra ...
Robert E. Bjork, John D. Niles, 1998
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Cultures of Nature: An Essay on the Production of Nature
LITOTIC COMPRESSIONS AND A HOLE IN CULTURE "Ir is HARD to make a
language in which the facts of nature have no place" (White 1984, 10). Yes, but
no more difficult than to make a language in which the facts of culture have no
place.
Lawrence E. Hazelrigg, 1995
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LITOTIC»
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litotic is used in the context of the following news items.
Great Moments in Swearing: The “GD Big Car” Edition
Not uncontrolled, to be litotic—that's how I'd characterize the form, content, and, yes, swears in “I Know a Man”: ADVERTISING. As I sd to my «Slate Magazine, Jan 15»
'Simple design is always complicated': How Tomas Maier made …
He is in London to promote the new book, which attempts to capture the litotic magic of his version of luxury, its cover an enlarged vision of the ... «The Independent, Mar 13»
Stockholm Fashion Week: Swedish style
... manga comics –was a colourful addition to a schedule where a modern and litotic take on good taste was primarily the order of the day. «The Independent, Feb 13»
How we like our irony served Down Under: well done
''You're not wrong,'' would be Paul Hogan's litotic response. However, when we consider Australian political parties, these conversational ... «Sydney Morning Herald, May 10»
Superflex: Flooded McDonald's, South London Gallery, London
A litotic plastic sign floats by: it reads "wet floor". But there are other things going on in Flooded McDonald's as well. There are, for example, ... «Independent, Jan 09»
