Negation in discourse: A text world approach to Joseph Heller's Catch-22

Language and Literature

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 215-239

  Hidalgo Downing, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Catch 22; Contradiction; Foregrounding; Heller, Joseph; Negation; Text worlds

Indexed keywords

EID: 12344325319     PISSN: 09639470     EISSN: 14617293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096394700000900302     Document Type: Article

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