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Defining things through binary opposition - male/female, familiar/foreign, life/death - forms the base of human thinking. Adding moral assessment to logic, we often represent binaries even as divisions into good and evil. Exclusions based on the division of Us vs. Them make their presence felt during any conflict, and become crucial in times of war. However, binary thinking is inherent also in peaceful, everyday conversation, when politics, social issues, ethnicities and religious identities ...

Binary principle (Linguistics) --- Binarism (Linguistics) --- Binarity (Linguistics) --- Binary opposition (Linguistics) --- Dichotomy precept (Linguistics) --- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) --- Linguistics

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Lesley Jeffries introduces a phenomenon which has not been given the attention it deserves - the contextual construction of oppositional meaning. These are opposites not recognisable as such out of context but that are clearly set up this way in the text concerned. The significance of oppositional meaning is well-known, and has been discussed by scholars for millennia, from Philosophy to Politics. But the main emphasis has always been on the conventional opposite: the opposite recognised by lexical semantics. Starting from socio-cultural viewpoints, moving to original research and then concluding with a new theoretical formulation, this book introduces and consolidates a significant new approach to the analysis of oppositional meaning. It closes with a discussion of the importance of constructed opposition in hegemonic practice and makes a case for the inclusion of opposition as a central tool of critical discourse analysis. It will be essential reading for researchers and graduates in stylistics, linguistics and language studies.

Opposition (Linguistics) --- Critical discourse analysis. --- CDA (Critical discourse analysis) --- Distinctive oppositions (Linguistics) --- Discourse analysis --- Binary principle (Linguistics) --- Diskurs. --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES --- Opposition (Linguistics). --- Opposition. --- REFERENCE --- Semantische Analyse. --- Vocabulary. --- Word Lists. --- Opposition (logique) --- Sémantique. --- Analyse du discours. --- Critical discourse analysis