Congratulations to Andy Kessler (“Lay Down Your Weaponization,” Inside View, Jan. 29) for providing another page of content for the book I will never write, “The Hyperbole Apocalypse: How the Humans ...

Stanford scholar Noah Goodman found that people understand nonliteral language – metaphor, hyperbole and exaggerated statements – when they focus on the intent behind the communication. To understand ...

Bleaching as a type of semantic change is often mentioned in works on grammaticalization, but very few studies focus on how bleaching occurs. The literature on hyperbole as a figure of speech notes ...