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Negated tautologies and copular contradictions: Interpretive strategies
International Review of Pragmatics Pub Date : 2019-05-14 , DOI: 10.1163/18773109-01102100
Victoria Escandell-Vidal 1 , Elena Vilinbakhova 2
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This paper investigates utterances with the structure A is not A, showing that they can be fully informative and are felicitously used and understood in discourse. Relying on the notions of metalinguistic and metarepresentational negation, we argue that the class of utterances A is not A is heterogeneous and differs in regard to the lower-order representation under the scope of the negative operator. Specifically, we distinguish negated tautologies and copular contradictions. The understanding of negated tautologies involves identifying the corresponding affirmative deep tautology (Bulhof & Gimbel, 2001) and rejecting the assumptions derived from it. The interpretation of copular contradictions is based on distinguishing each of the occurrences of the repeated constituent as describing (a) one single referent with different properties; (b) two different referents satisfying the same description in different evaluation worlds; (c) two different referents, with different properties, which are accessed by means of the same linguistic expression.



中文翻译:

否定的重言式和广泛的矛盾:解释性策略

本文研究了结构A不是A的话语,表明它们可以提供充分的信息,并在语篇中得到适当的使用和理解。依靠元语言学和元表征否定的概念,我们认为话语类别A不是A是异类的,并且在负运算符的范围内,低阶表示形式有所不同。具体来说,我们区分否定的重言式和广泛的矛盾。对否定式重言式的理解涉及确定相应的肯定性深度重言式(Bulhof&Gimbel,2001),并拒绝从中得出的假设。常见矛盾的解释是基于区分重复成分的每种出现,如描述:(a)具有不同属性的单个指称物;(b)在不同的评估领域中满足相同描述的两个不同的参考对象;(c)具有不同属性的两个不同的参照物,它们可以通过相同的语言表达方式访问。

更新日期:2019-05-14
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