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Publication details [#14036]
Jordan, Michael P. 1998. The power of negation in English: text, context and relevance. Journal of Pragmatics 29 (6) : 705–752. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
It is demonstrated that, in order to understand negations in real language, the text and context have to be taken into account. It is also shown that negation is significant for the study of relevance.