Negation, Expectation and Ideology in Written Texts: A textual and communicative perspective
Lisa Nahajec
During an election campaign in 2008, Ken Livingstone said to a newspaper reporter “this election is not a joke”. By doing so, he introduced an expectation into the discourse that someone does, in fact, think it is a joke. This book explores how it is that saying what is not the case communicates… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 38] 2021. xiii, 218 pp.