Resumen de An Intertextual Perspective of Negatives in Written Text
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.
