The pragmatics of negation : negative meanings, uses and discursive functions /

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Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Pragmatics & beyond new series, 0922-842X ; vol. 283 Pragmatics & beyond ; 283.
Subject:	Grammar, Comparative and general -- Negatives. Language and languages -- Negatives. Pragmatics. Semantics. Negation (Logic) Grammar, Comparative and general -- Negatives. Negation (Logic) Pragmatics. Semantics.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11759619

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Other authors / contributors:	Roitman, Malin, editor.
ISBN:	9789027264947 9027264945 9789027256881
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
Summary:	Negation is one of the most discussed phenomena within linguistics, on all language levels though it never seems to be exhausted. This operator establishes complex sentence structures and constantly challenges - from a cognitive, syntactical, semantic and morphologic viewpoint - presuppositions on language internal relations as rational and logic. It arouses therefore interest through all fields within language sciences. From a pragmatic perspective, where negation is conceived a marked structure, using negation often produces meanings beyond the one of a reversed affirmation "it is not the case that X". This book explores the various uses and pragmatic meanings of negation in authentic communication, in different text types and in different languages, predominately romance languages. The multilingual composition marries a macro-micro perspective where aspects of genre, sociocultural context, memory, rhetoric and argumentation interplay with the negative morpheme's nature and embedded instructions.
Other form:	Print version: Pragmatics of negation. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017] 9789027256881

Table of Contents:

-1. Prelim pages
0. Table of contents
1. Preface
2. Introduction
3. Partnbsp;I. Reinforcements of negatives
4. Chapternbsp;1. Metalinguistic negation and rejection discourse markers in Spanish
5. Chapternbsp;2. Metalinguistic negation and explicit echo, with reference to English and Spanish
6. Chapternbsp;3. Metalinguistic negation vs. descriptive negation
7. Chapter 4. Intervention Effects are (lack of) informativity
8. Chapternbsp;5. Discourse-pragmatic change and emphatic negation in Spoken French
9. Partnbsp;II. Negation and linguistic polyphony
10. Chapter 6. Interpretations of the French negationne...pas
11. Chapternbsp;7. French negation as a marker of (external/internal) polyphony
12. Partnbsp;III. Negation and polyphony in discourse analysis
13. Chapternbsp;8. Negation as a rhetorical tool in climate change discourse
14. Chapternbsp;9. Negation and straw man fallacy in French election debates 1974-2012
15. References
16. Index

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