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Metalinguistic negation from an informational perspective
Pierre Larrivée1 
[1] Normandie Université, Unicaen, CRISCO (EA4255), Esplanade de la Paix, CS 14032, Caen;
关键词: negation;    metalinguistic;    correction;    speech-act;    focus;    discourse-old;    discourse-new;    Information Structure;   
DOI  :  10.5334/gjgl.403
来源: DOAJ
【 摘 要 】

This paper revisits the definition of metalinguistic negation (MLN) illustrated by e.g. 'They don’t have 'kids, 'they have 'children. A new definition is proposed that rests on two properties. The first is that MLN is a corrective speech-act. The second is that the sentence used to perform the speech-act has a paradoxical Information Structure: it is discourse-old material, along with the corrected a segment that is however treated as discourse-new by virtue of being focused and contrasted to the correcting segment. These properties are used to explain established features of MLN. MLN’s speech-act status accounts for the distinctive behaviour of relevant connectives. The paradoxical Information Structure distinguishes MLN from other uses of negation, relates it to other corrective constructions and metalinguistic phenomena (e.g. in conditionals and questions) and accounts for the alleged marked status of metalinguistic configurations. How MLN can be mapped by a cartographic approach is speculated upon.

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