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Publication details [#23237]

Horn, Laurence R. 1985. Metalinguistic negation and pragmatic ambiguity. Language 61 (1) : 121–174.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ambiguity | metacommunication | negation

Annotation

This paper argues that marked negation ('external' negation) cannot be treated as a truth-conditional one-place connective and neither as a separate logical operator. It functions as a metalinguistic device for challenging any aspect of previous utterances.