LANGUAGE PATTERNS OF OVERSTATEMENT IN ENGLISH HYPERTEXT

Abstract

The article deals with the issues of English hypertext organization. The goal of the study is to reveal the language patterns of overstatement recurrently used by English-speakers when producing hypertexts in literary communication of the XXI century. The study material includes hypertexts in the form of general readers’ reviews of fiction books posted on British and US book-selling websites and professional reviews by literary critics and professional authors published in online mass media. The analysis of the reviews reveals a number of recurrent language patterns used to implement overstatement. The comparative analysis of professional and non-professional reviews shows some differences in the use of language patterns of overstatement.

Keywords

• преувеличение
• гипертекст
• рецензия на книгу
• языковая конструкция
• overstatement
• hypertext
• book review
• language pattern