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Auf Basis deutschsprachiger Korpusdaten stellt diese Studie Strukturen, Regelmäßigkeiten sowie formale und funktionale Bedingungen der rhetorischen Figur Litotes heraus. Anhand der Form der doppelten Negation (nicht unumstritten, nicht unlösbar) erlaubt es die Analyse pragmatische Mechanismen der 'Negation des Gegenteils' aufzuzeigen und das Verhältnis von Semantik und Pragmatik neu zu beleuchten. Based on German corpus data, this study presents the structure and the formal and functional conditions of the rhetorical figure of litotes. By examining the form of double negation ("not without controversy", "not insoluble") the analysis exposes the pragmatic mechanisms of "negating the opposite" and reformulates the relationship between the semantics and pragmatics of litotes.

German language --- Understatement. --- Figures of speech. --- double negation. --- litotes. --- pragmatic underspecification.

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The goal of this monograph is a comprehensive analysis of understatements and other forms of non-direct speech (hedges) in modern English. It is based on a multi-level approach, including philosophical, cultural, and socio-psychological arguments. The main part consists of an investigation of the linguistic restrictions for understatements and hedges to be formed by means of the following grammatical categories: negation of predicates, gradation of predicates, modalization of affirmative sentences by means of parenthetical verbs, modal adverbs, modal verbs, and questions.

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