LINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF UNDERSTATEMENT IN MODERN ENGLISH
The article focuses on the concept of Understatement as a lingua-cultural category and analyses the main linguistic means of realization of this phenomenon. Besides, some stylistic and pragmalinguistic aspects of Understatement are analyzed from the perspective of a distancing strategy. The research...
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| Language: | English |
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MGIMO University Press
2013-10-01
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| Series: | Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta |
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| Online Access: | https://www.vestnik.mgimo.ru/jour/article/view/1235 |