Anything negatives can do affirmatives can do just as well, except for some metaphors

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 981-1014

  Giora, Rachel ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Emphatic effects; Mitigation; Negation; Relevance; Retention; Suppression

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646344283     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2005.12.006     Document Type: Article

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