An Intertextual Perspective of Negatives in Written Text

• Autores: María José Luzón Marco
• Localización: ES: Revista de filología inglesa, ISSN 0210-9689, Nº. 20, 1996, págs. 133-144
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Negation has been mainly studied at the morphosyntactic level. Little work has been done on the pragmatic dimension of negation and on its discourse value. In this paper I consider negatives within the framework of intertextuality and discuss the role of negatives as strategies for enforcing ideology. I focus on negative sentences which presuppose a proposition in a prior text and analyze what kind of proposition is denied (explicit statements, assumptions and implications, texts within the reader's experience, or common knowledge expectations) and how the incorporation of a prior text through negation contributes to the meaning of the ongoing discourse.