Nature and Categorization of Metalinguistic Negation

Jiang, Canzhong

doi:10.17507/tpls.0503.20

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“…), metarepresentational (Carston 1996, i.a. ) or an instance of mention rather than use (Jiang 2015).…”

Section: Correction and Information Structurementioning

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Metalinguistic negation from an informational perspective

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2018

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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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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“…), metarepresentational (Carston 1996, i.a. ) or an instance of mention rather than use (Jiang 2015).…”

Section: Correction and Information Structurementioning

confidence: 99%

Metalinguistic negation from an informational perspective

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2018

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“…Horn [1], who developed the concept based on Ducrot's [2,3] concept of metalinguistic negation, argues that external or marked use must be treated not as a truth-functional or semantic operator for propositions but rather as a device for objecting to a previous utterance on any grounds, such as the conversational implicature, its morphology, style, register, and phonetic realization. In this sense, other scholars (Kruszewski, Paperno, Bernardi and Baroni [4]) also refer to external or marked negation as pragmatic or conversational negation, which, as a more inclusive term, also encompasses negation merely realized by context instead of negation operators (e.g., Jiang [5]). As such, this study prefers adopting pragmatic negation to metalinguistic negation for discussing relevant phenomena in the context of this study.…”

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Sorry as a Marker for Self-negation Used by Learners in Language Classrooms

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2017

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This study analyzes the naturally occurringEnglish word sorry in adult learners' talk in a language classroom and examines its role as a marker for self-negation from the perspective of pragmatic negation. The database for this study consists of 40 hours of video recordings of online tutorials for learning Chinese as a second language at a university in Hong Kong. The detailed analysis shows that to address various types of problematic utterances they make, learners do not always use an explicit negation operator such as no to negate their prior utterances but instead use sorry as an alternative. Rather than being used as a negation of a truth-functional operator for propositions, sorry is prominently used by learners as a device for objecting to a prior utterance in conversational implicature or other aspects of language use related to pragmatic negation. The findings also show that sorry plays a dual role by negating the prior utterance and predicting the next utterance, which may be either by the speaker or by the hearer, for correction. The reason for sorry being used as a marker for negation is discussed, and the study suggests that as sorry is perceived and understood maturely by speakers and hearers in context, it realizes the function of pragmatic negation.

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Nature and Categorization of Metalinguistic Negation

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Metalinguistic negation from an informational perspective

Metalinguistic negation from an informational perspective

Sorry as a Marker for Self-negation Used by Learners in Language Classrooms

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