10.624, Qs: Metaling negation, Discourse, French articles

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Subject: 10.624, Qs: Metaling negation, Discourse, French articles

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Date:  Wed, 28 Apr 1999 16:48:23 +0900
From:  "Hiroaki Tanaka" <hiro-t at ias.tokushima-u.ac.jp>
Subject:  Metalinguistic negation

2)
Date:  Wed, 28 Apr 1999 17:43:52 +0300 (EET DST)
From:  Jyrki Papinniemi <papinnie at cc.helsinki.fi>
Subject:  Query About Researches on IRC

3)
Date:  Thu, 29 Apr 1999 08:58:07 -0700
From:  Walkyria Magno e Silva <wmagno at amazon.com.br>
Subject:  bibliography in French

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Date:  Wed, 28 Apr 1999 16:48:23 +0900
From:  "Hiroaki Tanaka" <hiro-t at ias.tokushima-u.ac.jp>
Subject:  Metalinguistic negation

Dear all,
   I'm working on "metalinguistic negation" currently discussed by
Horn (1989), Carston (1994, 1998) and many others. One thing I want
to investigate is the properties of "metalinguistic negation in reversal
order," as shown in (1b) below. (1a) is a standard example of
metalinguistic negation.

(1) a. I won't deprive you of my lecture on negation; I'll spare you it.
     b. I'll spare you my lecture on negation; I won't deprive you of it.

   Ordinarily, the first clause in standard metalinguistic negation of (1a)
is processed truth-conditionally, but the second clause causes the
hearer to contradict the contents of the negation of the first clause,
so that s/he is forced to go back to the first clause and interpret it
metalinguistically. These are the processes of 'contradictoriness' and
'garden-pathing.'

   What about (1b)? Carston (1994, 1998) claims that "it is very
unlikely that there is any garden-pathing, requiring double processing of
the negative sentence." She cites the following dialogue.

(2) A: Don't deprive us of your lecture on negation.
     B: I'll spare you my lecture on negation; I won't deprive you of it.

Double processing of the negative sentence such as (1a) means that
at first the hearer considers the first clause to be truth-functional
(ordinary) negation, but later s/he reconsiders it to be metalinguistic.
Carston says that there is no such processing in the second clause of
(2B). Do you agree with her? My idea is that on hearing the first clause
of B's response, speaker A considers it to be contradictory to what he
expected to be in his original utterance, i.e. B's giving lecture on
negation, in that double processing of the positive sentence occurs
there after A hears B's not depriving him of it. My query is: What is the
esential difference of (1a) and (1b, 2B)? I would appreciate it if you
make some similar examples with context of "reversal metalinguistic
negation."

   Thank you very much in advance. I'm looking forward to your reply.
I'll post a summary soon. Please e-mail me to the following address.

Hiroaki Tanaka

Associate Professor
Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences
Tokushima University
1-1, Minamijosanjima
770-8502
Japan
TEL/FAX +81 886 56 7125

hiro-t at ias.tokushima-u.ac.jp

References
Carston, R. (1996) Metalinguistic negation and echoic use. Journal of
Pragmatics 25: 309-330.
- -. (1998) Negation, 'presupposition' and the semantics/pragmatics
distinction. Journal of Linguistics 34: 309-350.
Hron, L.(1989) A Natural History of Negation. Chicago University Press.


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Date:  Wed, 28 Apr 1999 17:43:52 +0300 (EET DST)
From:  Jyrki Papinniemi <papinnie at cc.helsinki.fi>
Subject:  Query About Researches on IRC


Dear listreaders,

A student of our department is writing a MA thesis on IR
chatting in Russian. Should anyone of you be aware of any
study, publications or drafts related with IR chatting on
any language, please respond to arto.mustajoki at helsinki.fi.

We will post a listing of the responses we receive.
Thank you in advance.

Prof. Arto Mustajoki
Department of Slavonic and Baltic Languages and Literatures
University of Helsinki


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Date:  Thu, 29 Apr 1999 08:58:07 -0700
From:  Walkyria Magno e Silva <wmagno at amazon.com.br>
Subject:  bibliography in French

Dear listers, I need the following articles or book portions for a
friend in FRENCH (Portuguese would do, but I think would be harder to
find...).  Can anyone help me?  SCHEGLOFF, E. et al.  A simples
systematic for the organization of turn-taking for conversation.
Language, 50, 696-735.  GOODWIN, Charles.  Conversational organization
interaction between speakers and hearers. 1981, p1-53.  LEVINSON,
Stephen.  Pragmatics.  Cambridge U. Press. 1983. Cap.6 BENNET, Adrian.
Strategies and counterstrategies in the use of yes-no questions in
discourse.  In GUMPERZ, Language and social identity. 1982.  Thanks a
lot, Walkyria Magno e Silva

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