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.