"When we say no we mean no": Interpreting negation in vision and language

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2222-2239

  Giora, Rachel ^a   Heruti, Vered ^a   Metuki, Nili ^a   Fein, Ofer ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ACADEMIC COLLEGE OF TEL AVIV YAFFO   (Israel)

Author keywords

Context; Contrast; Opposite; Retention; Suppression; Visual negation

Indexed keywords

EID: 69549120543     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2008.09.041     Document Type: Article

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