Chapter 3
Negation in language
Between semantics and pragmatics
Article outline
- 3.1Logic, psycho-logic and pragmatics
- 3.2The puzzling distributional restrictions on referring indefinite objects
- 3.3The communicative pragmatics of negation
- 3.4Negative assertion as a distinct speech-act
- 3.5The cognitive status of negation
- 3.5.1Change vs. stasis
- 3.5.2The ontology of negative events
- 3.5.3The ontology of negative states
- 3.6The scope of negation
- 3.6.1Presupposition, assertion and negation
- 3.6.2Negation and contrastive focus
- 3.6.3Negation and optional constituents
- 3.6.4Grammatical marking of the scope of assertion – and negation
- 3.7Negation and social interaction
- 3.8Closure
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Notes
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Abbreviations of grammatical terms