Publications

Publication details [#48130]

Mughazy, Mustafa. 2008. The pragmatics of denial: An information structure analysis of so-called "emphatic negation" in Egyptian Arabic. In Parkinson, Dilworth B., ed. Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics. Papers from the annual symposium on Arabic linguistics. Volume XXI: Provo, Utah, March 2007. (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 301). John Benjamins. pp. 69–81.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

denying | information structure | negation | pragmatics

Language as a subject

Arabic, Egyptian

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

Annotation

This paper on information structure analysis of "emphatic negation" in Egyptian Arabic deals with the pragmatics of denial.