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Dire et contredire : pragmatique de la négation et acte de réfutation dans la conversation
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ISBN: 3261050306 Year: 1982 Volume: 2 Publisher: Berne Lang

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Negative sentences in the languages of Europe: a typological approach
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ISBN: 3110140640 1306398606 3110819740 9783110819748 9783110140644 Year: 1996 Volume: 16 Publisher: Berlin Mouton De Gruyter


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La négation linguistique dans l'acquisition d'une langue étrangère : un débat conclu?
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ISBN: 3906768015 Year: 2004 Volume: 64 Publisher: Bern Lang


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The grammar of polarity : pragmatics, sensitivity, and the logic of scales
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ISBN: 9780521792400 0521792401 9780511975288 9781316606445 9781139158749 1139158740 1283342154 9781283342155 9781139160797 1139160796 0511975287 9781139156981 1139156985 9781139156981 1107218098 1139152416 1139159798 9786613342157 1139155237 1316606449 Year: 2011 Volume: 127 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Many languages include constructions which are sensitive to the expression of polarity: that is, negative polarity items, which cannot occur in affirmative clauses, and positive polarity items, which cannot occur in negatives. The phenomenon of polarity sensitivity has been an important source of evidence for theories about the mental architecture of grammar over the last fifty years, and to many the oddly dysfunctional sensitivities of polarity items have seemed to support a view of grammar as an encapsulated mental module fundamentally unrelated to other aspects of human cognition or communicative behavior. This book draws on insights from cognitive/functional linguistics and formal semantics to argue that, on the contrary, the grammar of sensitivity is grounded in a very general human cognitive ability to form categories and draw inferences based on scalar alternatives, and in the ways this ability is deployed for rhetorical effects in ordinary interpersonal communication.

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