Publications

Publication details [#31989]

Bublitz, Wolfram. 1992. Transferred negation and modality. Journal of Pragmatics 18 (6) : 551–577.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

epistemic modality | involvement | negation | politeness

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper uses the concept of epistemic modality to combine within a single perspective the phenomenon of transferred negation and the pragmatic phenomena of involvement and politeness.