Table of contents
Preface
vii
Introduction
1
Part IReinforcements of negatives: Pragmatic uses and discursive meanings
Chapter 1Metalinguistic negation and rejection discourse markers in Spanish
17
Chapter 2Metalinguistic negation and explicit echo, with reference to English and Spanish
45
Chapter 3Metalinguistic negation vs. descriptive negation: Among their Kin and Foes
63
Chapter 4Intervention effects are (lack of) informativity: The case of negative interrogatives
105
Chapter 5Discourse-pragmatic change and emphatic negation in spoken French: Or coming full circle
123
Part IINegation and linguistic polyphony
Chapter 6Interpretations of the French negation ne…pas
149
Chapter 7French negation as a marker of (external/internal) polyphony
167
Part IIINegation and polyphony in discourse analysis
Chapter 8Negation as a rhetorical tool in climate change discourse
187
Chapter 9Negation and straw man fallacy in French election debates 1974–2012
209
References
245
Index
265
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