Opposition in discourse : the construction of oppositional meaning / / Lesley Jeffries

• Autore: Jeffries Lesley <1956->
• Pubblicazione: London, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum International Publishing, , 2010; ©2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (158 p.)
• Disciplina: 401.41
• Soggetto topico: Opposition (Linguistics); Critical discourse analysis
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter One: What are opposites?; Chapter Two: How opposites are constructed in texts and what they mean; Chapter Three: Literary effects of constructed opposition; Chapter Four: The role of opposition-construction in discourse meanings; Chapter Five: The significance of opposition in language and texts; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Lesley Jeffries introduces a phenomenon which has not been given the attention it deserves - the contextual construction of oppositional meaning. These are opposites not recognisable as such out of context but that are clearly set up this way in the text concerned. The significance of oppositional meaning is well-known, and has been discussed by scholars for millennia, from Philosophy to Politics. But the main emphasis has always been on the conventional opposite: the opposite recognised by lexical semantics. Starting from socio-cultural viewpoints, moving to original research and then c
• Titolo autorizzato: Opposition in discourse
• ISBN: 1-283-20798-2; 9786613207982; 1-4411-9863-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789801303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Advances in stylistics.