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Publication details [#9495]

Tottie, Gunnel. 1981. Negation and discourse strategy in spoken and written English. In Sankoff, David and Henriette Cedergren, eds. Variation omnibus. Linguistic Research. pp. 271–284.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse strategy | negation | oral vs. written | planned vs. unplanned speech

Language as a subject

English

Annotation

T. inquires into the reasons for the higher frequency of affixal negation in written English than in spoken English. The distinction between prepared and unprepared discourse is said to be crucial.