Discourse functions of antonymy: A cross-linguistic investigation of Swedish and English

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2159-2184

  Murphy, M Lynne ^a   Paradis, Carita ^b   Willners, Caroline ^c   Jones, Steven ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adjectives; Construction; Contrast; Corpus; Discourse frame; Opposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 69749114537     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2008.09.040     Document Type: Article

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