understatement

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Sources

• ERC 334

  Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition. (1996) New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.

• LEECH 1983 145

  LEECH, Geoffrey N. (1983) Principles of Pragmatics. Longman: London.

• HOCK 1986 285

  HOCK, Hans Henrich. (1986) Principles of Historical Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

• ELL 5142

  The Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. (1994) Oxford: Pergamon Press.