Publications

Publication details [#51080]

Paradis, Carita, M. Lynne Murphy, Steven Jones and Caroline Willners. 2009. Discourse functions of antonymy: A cross-linguistic investigation of Swedish and English. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (11) : 2159–2184.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

antonymy | crosslinguistic perspective | discursive practice | function | language and culture

Language as a subject

English | Swedish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This cross-linguistic study examines and compares discourse functions of antonymy in English and Swedish. The proportions of the functions appear to differ significantly.