A Truth-Functional Account of Metalinguistic Negation, With Evidence from Korean.

Carston, Robyn; Noh, Eun-Ju

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ERIC Number: EJ532565

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Publication Date: 1996

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A Truth-Functional Account of Metalinguistic Negation, With Evidence from Korean.

Carston, Robyn; Noh, Eun-Ju

Language Sciences, v18 n1-2 p485-504 Jan-Apr 1996

Argues that essential property of metalinguistic negation is that it involves the echoic use of material falling within the scope of negation operator. This analysis receives support from an investigation of data from Korean. (25 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: Ambiguity, Contrastive Linguistics, Inferences, Korean, Linguistic Theory, Metalinguistics, Negative Forms (Language), Phonetics, Pragmatics, Semantics, Sentence Structure, Speech Communication, Uncommonly Taught Languages

Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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