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

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Nahajec, Lisa (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]
Colección:Linguistic approaches to literature ; v. 38.
Temas:
Discourse analysis, Literary.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Negatives.
Negation (Logic)
Literary style.
Discours littéraire.
Négations (Linguistique)
Négation (Logique)
Style littéraire.
literary criticism.
Discourse analysis, Literary
Grammar, Comparative and general > Negatives
Literary style
essays.
Essays
Essays.
Essais.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Negation, Expectation and Ideology in Written Texts
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication page
  • Table of contents
  • List of figures and tables
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 1. Something and nothing
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Initial definition
  • 1.3 Negation in discourse
  • 1.3.1 In literary texts
  • 1.3.2 In non-literary texts and implications for ideology
  • 1.4 An Integrated approach to negation in discourse
  • 1.5 The place of negation in stylistics
  • 1.6 Format of this book
  • Chapter 2. Negation, duality and expectation
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Experimental evidence
  • 2.2.1 Processing times and plausible context
  • 2.2.2 Retaining negated concepts
  • 2.3 Grammatical evidence
  • 2.3.1 Anaphoric reference
  • 2.3.2 Ellipsis
  • 2.4 Discourse evidence
  • 2.4.1 Giora's (2006) resonance, comparison and accessibility of negated concepts
  • 2.4.2. Processing negated metaphors
  • 2.5 Stasis and change/ground and figure
  • 2.6 Negation and mental spaces
  • 2.7 Negation and intersubjectivity
  • 2.7.1 Verhagen's intersubjectivity
  • 2.7.2 Morphological negation and multiple mental representations
  • 2.8 Conclusions
  • Chapter 3. Linguistic realisations of negation-motivated variation
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2. Issues around constructing a typology: Describing and defining negation
  • 3.2.1 Definitions and descriptions
  • 3.2.2 Defining negation
  • 3.3 Textual vehicles
  • 3.3.1 The analytic versus synthetic distinction
  • 3.3.2 Syntactic forms
  • 3.3.2.1 Analytic Syntactic
  • 3.3.2.2 Synthetic syntactic
  • 3.3.3 Morphological forms
  • 3.3.3.1 Morphological negation in relation to prototypical forms
  • 3.3.3.2 Variability between affixes
  • 3.3.4 Semantic forms
  • 3.3.4.1 Identifying semantic negation
  • 3.3.4.2 Peripheral semantic forms
  • 3.3.5 Pragmatic forms
  • 3.3.5.1 Grammaticalised forms.
  • 3.3.5.2 Modality and past tense conditional constructions
  • 3.4 Motivations for variation
  • 3.4.1 Scope
  • 3.4.1.1 Sentence scope
  • 3.4.1.2 Semantic scope
  • 3.4.1.3 Utterance/context scope
  • 3.4.2 Synthesis and Co-text, text-type and lexical gaps
  • 3.4.3 Variable force
  • 3.4.3.1 Weak negative force
  • 3.4.3.2 Strong negative force
  • 3.4.3.3 Negative force as variable focus on possible presence or actual absence
  • 3.5 Motivated variation
  • Chapter 4. Understanding negation in context
  • presuppositions and implicatures
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Interpreting negation: Presupposition
  • 4.2.1 Conversational implicature
  • 4.2.2 Conventional implicature
  • 4.2.3 Pragmatic presupposition
  • 4.2.4 Conceptual practice as a presupposition trigger
  • 4.2.5 Negation, presupposition and ambiguity
  • 4.3 What is presupposed and by whom?
  • 4.3.1 Who expects
  • 4.3.1.1 Readers/hearers, ideal readers/hearers and expectations
  • 4.3.1.2 Speakers/writers and expectations
  • 4.3.1.3 Expectations or possibilities?
  • 4.3.2 What is expected?
  • 4.3.3 Sources of expectation
  • 4.3.3.1 Explicit expectations
  • 4.3.3.2 Implicit expectations
  • 4.3.3.3 Projected expectations
  • 4.4 Interpreting negation: implicatures
  • 4.4.1 Levels of meaning
  • 4.4.2 Negation and implicatures
  • 4.4.3 Moeschler's Relevance Theory approach
  • 4.4.4 Using Grice's Cooperative principle and maxims to explain the role of negation in implicatures
  • 4.4.4.1 Interpreting negation and variable form
  • 4.2.4.2 Negation, implicatures and imperative structures
  • 4.5 The three inter-related features of negation: presupposition, variable form and potential conversational implicatures
  • Chapter 5. Negation, expectation and ideology
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Negation, background knowledge and ideology
  • 5.2.1 Ideology
  • 5.2.2 Background knowledge.
  • 5.2.3 Projecting expectations and behaviours
  • 5.2.4 Reflecting expectations
  • 5.2.5 Varying form and ideological effects
  • 5.3 Conclusion
  • Chapter 6. Negation and ideology in advertising
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Advertising data analyses
  • 6.2.1 Life is a problem
  • 6.2.2 Eating is a problem
  • 6.2.3 Bodies are a problem
  • 6.2.4 Institutions are a problem
  • 6.2.5 Women are the problem!
  • 6.2.6 Is that even a problem?
  • 6.2.7 You're the problem!
  • 6.3. Conclusion
  • Chapter 7. Negation, the Press and Politics
  • 7.1. Introduction
  • 7.1.1 Background to the election
  • 7.1.2 Data
  • 7.2. Analyses: Types and frequencies of negation
  • 7.2.1 The candidates
  • 7.3 Analyses: ideological effects of negation
  • 7.3.1 The three main candidates
  • 7.3.1.1 Boris Johnson
  • 7.3.1.2 Ken Livingstone
  • 7.3.1.3 Brian Paddick
  • 7.4 Conclusion
  • Chapter 8. The Power of Nothing
  • References
  • Index.

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