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Acknowledgements |
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Chapter 1 Something and nothing |
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1 | (20) |
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3 | (1) |
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1.3 Negation in discourse |
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4 | (11) |
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1.3.2 In non-literary texts and implications for ideology |
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11 | (4) |
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1.4 An integrated approach to negation in discourse |
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15 | (1) |
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1.5 The place of negation in stylistics |
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16 | (1) |
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17 | (4) |
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Chapter 2 Negation, duality and expectation |
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21 | (24) |
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21 | (2) |
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2.2 Experimental evidence |
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23 | (4) |
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2.2.1 Processing times and plausible context |
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23 | (2) |
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2.2.2 Retaining negated concepts |
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25 | (2) |
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27 | (4) |
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2.3.1 Anaphoric reference |
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27 | (1) |
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28 | (3) |
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31 | (4) |
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2.4.1 Giora's (2006) resonance, comparison and accessibility of negated concepts |
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31 | (1) |
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2.4.2 Processing negated metaphors |
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32 | (3) |
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2.5 Stasis and change/ground and figure |
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35 | (2) |
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2.6 Negation and mental spaces |
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37 | (2) |
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2.7 Negation and intersubjectivity |
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39 | (4) |
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2.7.1 Verhagen's intersubjectivity |
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39 | (2) |
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2.7.2 Morphological negation and multiple mental representations |
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41 | (2) |
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43 | (2) |
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Chapter 3 Linguistic realisations of negation-motivated variation |
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3.2 Issues around constructing a typology: Describing and defining negation |
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46 | (6) |
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3.2.1 Definitions and descriptions |
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46 | (5) |
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51 | (1) |
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52 | (30) |
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3.3.1 The analytic versus synthetic distinction |
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53 | (1) |
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54 | (6) |
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3.3.3 Morphological forms |
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60 | (6) |
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66 | (9) |
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75 | (7) |
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3.4 Motivations for variation |
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82 | (13) |
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82 | (5) |
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3.4.2 Synthesis and co-text, text-type and lexical gaps |
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87 | (2) |
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89 | (6) |
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95 | (2) |
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Chapter 4 Understanding negation in context -- presuppositions and implicatures |
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97 | (38) |
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4.2 Interpreting negation: Presupposition |
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4.2.1 Conversational implicature |
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98 | (3) |
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4.2.2 Conventional implicature |
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101 | (3) |
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4.2.3 Pragmatic presupposition |
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104 | (2) |
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4.2.4 Conceptual practice as a presupposition trigger |
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106 | (1) |
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4.2.5 Negation, presupposition and ambiguity |
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107 | (2) |
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4.3 What is presupposed and by whom? |
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109 | (12) |
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109 | (6) |
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115 | (1) |
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4.3.3 Sources of expectation |
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115 | (6) |
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4.4 Interpreting negation: implicatures |
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121 | (12) |
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122 | (1) |
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4.4.2 Negation and implicatures |
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123 | (1) |
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4.4.3 Moeschler's Relevance Theory approach |
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124 | (2) |
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4.4.4 Using Grice's Cooperative principle and maxims to explain the role of negation in implicatures |
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126 | (7) |
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4.5 The three inter-related features of negation: presupposition, variable form and potential conversational implicatures |
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133 | (2) |
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Chapter 5 Negation, expectation and ideology |
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135 | (26) |
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5.2 Negation, background knowledge and ideology |
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136 | (23) |
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5.2.2 Background knowledge |
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138 | (5) |
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5.2.3 Projecting expectations and behaviours |
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143 | (8) |
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5.2.4 Reflecting expectations |
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151 | (4) |
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5.2.5 Varying form and ideological effects |
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155 | (4) |
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159 | (2) |
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Chapter 6 Negation and ideology in advertising |
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161 | (16) |
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161 | (3) |
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6.2 Advertising data analyses |
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164 | (12) |
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164 | (2) |
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6.2.2 Eating is a problem |
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166 | (1) |
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6.2.3 Bodies are a problem |
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167 | (1) |
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6.2.4 Institutions are a problem |
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168 | (2) |
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6.2.5 Women are the problem! |
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170 | (2) |
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6.2.6 Is that even a problem? |
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172 | (1) |
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6.2.7 You're the problem! |
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173 | (3) |
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176 | (1) |
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Chapter 7 Negation, the press and politics |
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177 | (26) |
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177 | (3) |
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7.1.1 Background to the election |
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177 | (1) |
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178 | (2) |
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7.2 Analyses: Types and frequencies of negation |
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180 | (5) |
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183 | (2) |
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7.3 Analyses: ideological effects of negation |
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185 | (14) |
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7.3.1 The three main candidates |
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186 | (1) |
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186 | (6) |
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192 | (4) |
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196 | (3) |
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199 | (4) |
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Chapter 8 The power of nothing |
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203 | (4) |
References |
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207 | (6) |
Index |
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