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Can political rhetoric ever be “too persuasive”? The combination of proverb and hyperbole in the case of having the cake and eating it

Andreas Musolff
E-mail: a.musolff@uea.ac.uk
University of East Anglia
Sažetak: Can the use of linguistic devices to achieve persuasion, such as metaphor, irony and hyperbole, ever be “too persuasive”, i.e., overshoot its rhetorical aim? More specifically, can the combination of ...