Negation, expectation and ideology in written texts : a textual and communicative perspective / Lisa Nahajec.

"During an election campaign in 2008, Ken Livingstone said to a newspaper reporter "this election is not a joke". By doing so, he introduced an expectation into the discourse that someone does, in fact, think it is a joke. This book explores how it is that saying what is not the case...

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Other Authors: Nahajec, Lisa (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]
Series:Linguistic approaches to literature ; v. 38.
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