Negatives and Meaning: Social Setting and Pragmatic Effects

Using Negatives in Political Discourse, Social Media and Oral Interaction

Malin Roitman (ed.)

Part of the Stockholm Studies in Romance Languages series.

This volume deals with the pragmatic dimension of negations and is oriented towards empirical studies of negatives’ meanings and functions in media and public discourses.

By bringing together scholars from different countries, with studies on different languages this volume aims to shed light and contribute to new knowledge about the forms and functionality of negation as an universal phenomenon. Linguists and pragmaticiens generally agree that the use of negatives escapes logic and pure semantic description and is therefore best analysed with tools from cognitive and pragmatic theories.

Based on hypotheses within pragmatics, semantics and discourse analysis, the main assumption is here that forms of expressing negatives emerge and adjust constantly and in accordance with the cultural domain and the social setting of their appearance. This is why this volume focuses on the functions of negative expressions in specific domains and types of discourses.

The Hostages of the Northmen

From the Viking Age to the Middle Ages

Stefan Lennart Olsson

Part of the Stockholm Studies in Comparative Religion series.

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Myth, Materiality and Lived Religion

In Merovingian and Viking Scandinavia

Klas Wikström af Edholm et al. (eds.)

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