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Publication details [#5406]

Kawinska, Maria. 1980. Some remarks about the pragmatics of negation in Polish and English. Papers and studies in Contrastive Linguistics 11 : 119–127.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

negation | speech act

Language as a subject

English | Polish

Annotation

K. treats negative assertions as speech acts in Polish and English and concludes that the same pragmatic characteristics can be postulated for negatives in both languages.