A piece of trash of the worst cabinet ever : the rhetorical use of exaggeration by the Dutch populist party for freedom'

Abstract: It is assumable that rhetorical exaggeration, also known as hyperbole, is one of these important rhetorical features that suites the deviant populist style. In order to test this hypothesis, we use the political context of the Dutch House of Parliaments and focus again on the populist politician Geert Wilders, but we include also other politicians of his party PVV. The degree of hyperbolic language is compared to other parties in the parliament in the Netherlands. We use methods based in earlier research of hyperbole (McCarthy and Carter, 2004; Cano Mora, 2009) that enables to identi... Mehr ...