Figure of Speech in Directive Speech Act of Hypnotherapy: Pragma-Stylistics Analysis

2013; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

10.2139/ssrn.2281314

ISSN

1556-5068

Autores

Jatmika Nurhadi, Nani Darmayanti, Nani Sunarni,

Tópico(s)

Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

Resumo

This research aimed to describe figure of speech in directive speech act of hypnotherapy. The description of this research is using pragma-stylistics analysis. Utilization of figure of speech in directive speech act of hypnotherapy realized in eight cases, namely (a) directive-antithesis, (b) directive-simile, (c) directive-parallelism, (d) directive-epizeuxis, (e) directive-climax, (f) directive-hyperbole, (g) directive-prolepsis, and (h) directive-rhetorical.

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