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Record Nr.

UNINA9910794567603321

Autore

Nahajec Lisa

Titolo

Negation, expectation and ideology in written texts : a textual and communicative perspective / Lisa Nahajec

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : John Benjamins, 2021

©2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 pages)

Collana

Linguistic Approaches to Literature ; vol. 38

Disciplina

401.4

Soggetti

Discourse analysis, Literary

Grammar, Comparative and general - Negatives

Negation (Logic)

Literary style

Essays.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

"During an election campaign in 2008, Ken Livingstone said to a newspaper reporter "this election is not a joke". By doing so, he introduced an expectation into the discourse that someone does, in fact, think it is a joke. This book explores how it is that saying what is not the case communicates something about what is. Bringing together a focus on text with cognitive and pragmatic approaches, a case is made for an application of linguistic negation as a tool of analysis. This tool is used to explore the ideological implications of projecting or reflecting readerly expectations. This book contributes to the growing field of Critical stylistics and aims to add to the range of stylistic insights which anchor the analysis of discourse to a consideration of the nuances of language choice"--