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 ...

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 ...

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 ...