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Opposition In Discourse: The Construction of Oppositional Meaning

By Lesley Jeffries

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2014
ISBN
1472528387, 9781472528384
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
663 kB (679232 bytes)
Series
Advances in Stylistics
Edition
Reprint
Pages
160\161
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-03-28 20:43:12
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Description

In this important book, 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.Starting from socio-cultural viewpoints, moving to original research and then concluding with a new theoretical formulation, this book introduces and consolidates a significant new approach to the analysis of oppositional meaning. It closes with a discussion of the importance of constructed opposition in hegemonic practice and makes a case for the inclusion of opposition as a central tool of critical discourse analysis. It is now essential reading for researchers and graduates in stylistics, linguistics and language studies.

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