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Opposition in Discourse: The Construction of Oppositional Meaning

Opposition in Discourse: The Construction of Oppositional Meaning

Hardcover

Series: Advances in Stylistics

Linguistics

ISBN10: 1847065120
ISBN13: 9781847065124
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Mar 26 2010
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Lesley Jeffries introduces a phenomenon which has not been given the attention it deserves - the contextual construction of oppositional meaning. These are opposites not recognisable as such out of context but that are clearly set up this way in the text concerned.


The significance of oppositional meaning is well-known, and has been discussed by scholars for millennia, from Philosophy to Politics. But the main emphasis has always been on the conventional opposite: the opposite recognised by lexical semantics.


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