Negation, Expectation and Ideology in Written Texts : : A Textual and Communicative Perspective.

• Superior document: Linguistic Approaches to Literature Series ; v.38
• Author: Nahajec, Lisa.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, 2021.; Ã2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Linguistic Approaches to Literature Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (234 pages)

Table of Contents

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.