The Pragmatics of Negation : Negative Meanings, Uses and Discursive Functions.
Roitman, Malin.
The Pragmatics of Negation : Negative Meanings, Uses and Discursive Functions. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (282 pages) - Pragmatics and Beyond New Series ; v.283 . - Pragmatics and Beyond New Series .
Intro -- The Pragmatics of Negation -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 0.1 The nature of negation - At the crossroads between truth-value operator and speech act -- 0.2 The asymmetry of negation - A history beyond binary relations -- 0.3 The markedness of negation: A cognitive challenge and informative unexpectedness -- 0.4 Metalinguistic negation -- 0.5 Negation as marker of polyphony and a tool for argumentation -- 0.6 Summary of the chapters in this volume -- Part I. Reinforcements of negatives: Pragmatic uses and discursive meanings -- Chapter 1. Metalinguistic negation and rejection discourse markers in Spanish -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Background overview -- 1.3 Metalinguistic negation, replies introduced by ma que, otra que, minga que, cómo que, pero si and rejection of a prior discourse -- 1.4 Evidentiality, polyphonic perspective and rejection replies -- 1.5 Concluding remarks -- Chapter 2. Metalinguistic negation and explicit echo, with reference to English and Spanish -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Linguistic reflexivity, metalinguistic negation and discursive echo -- 2.3 Idiomatic expressions -- 2.4 Formal and discursive articulation of the explicit echo -- 2.5 Dialogic vs. monologic uses -- 2.6 Intensified negation -- 2.7 Concluding remarks -- Chapter 3. Metalinguistic negation vs. descriptive negation: Among their kin and foes -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.1.1 Research on negative expressions -- 3.1.2 What this chapter explores -- 3.2 Identifying metalinguistic negation -- 3.2.1 Basic distinctions -- 3.2.2 Metalinguistic Negation vs. 'Contrastive Negation' -- 3.3 Negative Polarity vs. MN -- 3.3.1 Two negations or one negation? Different positions on Metalinguistic Negation -- 3.4 Implications of some prosody and ERP experiments. 3.4.1 Prosodic markedness of MN-licensed degree adverbials -- 3.4.2 ERP experiments on MN-licensed degree adverbials -- 3.4.3 Principle of metalinguistic denial of commonality -- 3.4.4 MN adverbials: How violations are manifested in brainwaves -- 3.4.5 Experiment 1: ERP analysis of MN adverbials in written sentences -- 3.4.6 Experiment 2: ERP analysis of MN adverbials in spoken sentences -- 3.5 General discussion of ERP Experiments for MN (and NPIs) -- 3.6 Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgement -- Chapter 4. Intervention Effects are (lack of) informativity: The case of negative interrogatives -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 A pragmatic affair -- 4.3 Escaping intervention effects -- 4.4 Concluding discussion -- Chapter 5. Discourse-pragmatic change and emphatic negation in Spoken French: Or coming full circle -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The pragmatics of negation -- 5.3 Data and approach -- 5.4 Results: Discourse-pragmatic findings or 'Quand elle mousse, elle ne' -- 5.4 Results: Discourse-pragmatic findings or 'Quand elle mousse, elle ne' -- 5.5 Discussion and conclusion(s) -- Part II. Negation and linguistic polyphony -- Chapter 6. Interpretations of the French negation ne…pas -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Pragmatic meaning of negation -- 6.2.1 Uses and forms of negative utterance -- 6.2.2 Polemic and descriptive degations -- 6.2.3 Recapitulation -- 6.3 Polyphonic analysis -- 6.3.1 Metalinguistic negation -- 6.3.2 Descriptive negation -- 6.3.3 Strong blockers -- 6.3.4 Weak blockers -- 6.3.5 Triggers -- 6.3.6 Blockers and triggers combined -- 6.3.7 Cotextual constraints -- 6.4 Conclusions -- Chapter 7. French negation as a marker of (external/internal) polyphony -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Why linguistic polyphony? -- 7.3 Linguistic polyphony and different kinds of polyphony -- 7.3.1 Refusal of the unified nature of the speaker. 7.3.2 The speaker and the points of view -- 7.3.3 External vs internal polyphony -- 7.3.4 An example of external polyphony -- 7.4 The French polemic negation ne…pas as a marker of external and/or internal polyphony -- 7.4.1 Polyphony in negated utterances modalised by the modal verb devoir -- 7.4.2 External and internal polyphony in adversative structures -- 7.5 Conclusion -- Part III. Negation and polyphony in discourse analysis -- Chapter 8. Negation as a rhetorical tool in climate change discourse -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The IPCC and previous research on climate change discourse -- 8.3 Negation as a marker of polyphony -- 8.4 Analysis: The IPCC's "summary for policymakers" 2007 and 2013 -- 8.4.1 The 2007 IPCC summary -- 8.5 Concluding remarks -- Chapter 9. Negation and straw man fallacy in French election debates 1974-2012 -- 9.1 Introduction: Negation and argumentation -- 9.2 Negation in pragmatics: Enunciation theory and in discourse analysis -- 9.3 Argumentation by negation and the straw man fallacy -- 9.4 Refutations in the presidential election debates 1974 to 2012: Global scene and generic features -- 9.4.1 Refuting the collective voice or the opponent's argument -- 9.5 The straw man fallacies in the presidential debates -- 9.5.1 Negation used for straw man attacks -- 9.5.2 Defence against straw man attacks -- 9.6 Synthesis and discussion -- 9.6.1 Generalities -- 9.6.2 Straw man attacks and facts -- 9.6.3 Right-wing and left-wing straw man negations and differences between candidates -- 9.6.4 Straw man and political ideas -- 9.6.5 Straw man and personal attitudes and character -- 9.7 Conclusion -- References -- Index.
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.
9789027264947
Grammar, Comparative and general-Negatives.
Language and languages-Negatives.
Pragmatics.
Semantics.
Negation (Logic).
Electronic books.
P299.N4 .P734 2017
415/.7
The Pragmatics of Negation : Negative Meanings, Uses and Discursive Functions. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (282 pages) - Pragmatics and Beyond New Series ; v.283 . - Pragmatics and Beyond New Series .
Intro -- The Pragmatics of Negation -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 0.1 The nature of negation - At the crossroads between truth-value operator and speech act -- 0.2 The asymmetry of negation - A history beyond binary relations -- 0.3 The markedness of negation: A cognitive challenge and informative unexpectedness -- 0.4 Metalinguistic negation -- 0.5 Negation as marker of polyphony and a tool for argumentation -- 0.6 Summary of the chapters in this volume -- Part I. Reinforcements of negatives: Pragmatic uses and discursive meanings -- Chapter 1. Metalinguistic negation and rejection discourse markers in Spanish -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Background overview -- 1.3 Metalinguistic negation, replies introduced by ma que, otra que, minga que, cómo que, pero si and rejection of a prior discourse -- 1.4 Evidentiality, polyphonic perspective and rejection replies -- 1.5 Concluding remarks -- Chapter 2. Metalinguistic negation and explicit echo, with reference to English and Spanish -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Linguistic reflexivity, metalinguistic negation and discursive echo -- 2.3 Idiomatic expressions -- 2.4 Formal and discursive articulation of the explicit echo -- 2.5 Dialogic vs. monologic uses -- 2.6 Intensified negation -- 2.7 Concluding remarks -- Chapter 3. Metalinguistic negation vs. descriptive negation: Among their kin and foes -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.1.1 Research on negative expressions -- 3.1.2 What this chapter explores -- 3.2 Identifying metalinguistic negation -- 3.2.1 Basic distinctions -- 3.2.2 Metalinguistic Negation vs. 'Contrastive Negation' -- 3.3 Negative Polarity vs. MN -- 3.3.1 Two negations or one negation? Different positions on Metalinguistic Negation -- 3.4 Implications of some prosody and ERP experiments. 3.4.1 Prosodic markedness of MN-licensed degree adverbials -- 3.4.2 ERP experiments on MN-licensed degree adverbials -- 3.4.3 Principle of metalinguistic denial of commonality -- 3.4.4 MN adverbials: How violations are manifested in brainwaves -- 3.4.5 Experiment 1: ERP analysis of MN adverbials in written sentences -- 3.4.6 Experiment 2: ERP analysis of MN adverbials in spoken sentences -- 3.5 General discussion of ERP Experiments for MN (and NPIs) -- 3.6 Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgement -- Chapter 4. Intervention Effects are (lack of) informativity: The case of negative interrogatives -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 A pragmatic affair -- 4.3 Escaping intervention effects -- 4.4 Concluding discussion -- Chapter 5. Discourse-pragmatic change and emphatic negation in Spoken French: Or coming full circle -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The pragmatics of negation -- 5.3 Data and approach -- 5.4 Results: Discourse-pragmatic findings or 'Quand elle mousse, elle ne' -- 5.4 Results: Discourse-pragmatic findings or 'Quand elle mousse, elle ne' -- 5.5 Discussion and conclusion(s) -- Part II. Negation and linguistic polyphony -- Chapter 6. Interpretations of the French negation ne…pas -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Pragmatic meaning of negation -- 6.2.1 Uses and forms of negative utterance -- 6.2.2 Polemic and descriptive degations -- 6.2.3 Recapitulation -- 6.3 Polyphonic analysis -- 6.3.1 Metalinguistic negation -- 6.3.2 Descriptive negation -- 6.3.3 Strong blockers -- 6.3.4 Weak blockers -- 6.3.5 Triggers -- 6.3.6 Blockers and triggers combined -- 6.3.7 Cotextual constraints -- 6.4 Conclusions -- Chapter 7. French negation as a marker of (external/internal) polyphony -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Why linguistic polyphony? -- 7.3 Linguistic polyphony and different kinds of polyphony -- 7.3.1 Refusal of the unified nature of the speaker. 7.3.2 The speaker and the points of view -- 7.3.3 External vs internal polyphony -- 7.3.4 An example of external polyphony -- 7.4 The French polemic negation ne…pas as a marker of external and/or internal polyphony -- 7.4.1 Polyphony in negated utterances modalised by the modal verb devoir -- 7.4.2 External and internal polyphony in adversative structures -- 7.5 Conclusion -- Part III. Negation and polyphony in discourse analysis -- Chapter 8. Negation as a rhetorical tool in climate change discourse -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The IPCC and previous research on climate change discourse -- 8.3 Negation as a marker of polyphony -- 8.4 Analysis: The IPCC's "summary for policymakers" 2007 and 2013 -- 8.4.1 The 2007 IPCC summary -- 8.5 Concluding remarks -- Chapter 9. Negation and straw man fallacy in French election debates 1974-2012 -- 9.1 Introduction: Negation and argumentation -- 9.2 Negation in pragmatics: Enunciation theory and in discourse analysis -- 9.3 Argumentation by negation and the straw man fallacy -- 9.4 Refutations in the presidential election debates 1974 to 2012: Global scene and generic features -- 9.4.1 Refuting the collective voice or the opponent's argument -- 9.5 The straw man fallacies in the presidential debates -- 9.5.1 Negation used for straw man attacks -- 9.5.2 Defence against straw man attacks -- 9.6 Synthesis and discussion -- 9.6.1 Generalities -- 9.6.2 Straw man attacks and facts -- 9.6.3 Right-wing and left-wing straw man negations and differences between candidates -- 9.6.4 Straw man and political ideas -- 9.6.5 Straw man and personal attitudes and character -- 9.7 Conclusion -- References -- Index.
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.
9789027264947
Grammar, Comparative and general-Negatives.
Language and languages-Negatives.
Pragmatics.
Semantics.
Negation (Logic).
Electronic books.
P299.N4 .P734 2017
415/.7