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)
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Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2021]
Series:Linguistic approaches to literature ; v. 38.
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245 0 0 |a Negation, expectation and ideology in written texts :  |b a textual and communicative perspective /  |c Lisa Nahajec. 
264 1 |a Amsterdam ;  |a Philadelphia :  |b John Benjamins Publishing Company,  |c [2021] 
300 |a 1 online resource (ix, 218 pages) :  |b illustrations. 
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490 1 |a Linguistic approaches to literature (LAL),  |x 15693112 ;  |v volume 38 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520 |a "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 communicates something about what is. Bringing together a focus on text with cognitive and pragmatic approaches, a case is made for an application of linguistic negation as a tool of analysis. This tool is used to explore the ideological implications of projecting or reflecting readerly expectations. This book contributes to the growing field of Critical stylistics and aims to add to the range of stylistic insights which anchor the analysis of discourse to a consideration of the nuances of language choice"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
588 |a Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 23, 2021). 
505 0 |a 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. 
505 8 |a 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. 
505 8 |a 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. 
650 0 |a Discourse analysis, Literary. 
650 0 |a Grammar, Comparative and general  |x Negatives. 
650 0 |a Negation (Logic) 
650 0 |a Literary style. 
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650 7 |a Discourse analysis, Literary  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Grammar, Comparative and general  |x Negatives  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Literary style  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Negation (Logic)  |2 fast 
655 7 |a essays.  |2 aat 
655 7 |a Essays  |2 fast 
655 7 |a Essays.  |2 lcgft 
655 7 |a Essais.  |2 rvmgf 
700 1 |a Nahajec, Lisa,  |e editor. 
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