Litotes in English research articles: disciplinary variation across life and social sciences
This paper reports on an analysis of litotes in English research articles from two distant fields, life and social sciences. As a device for understatement, litotes denies the semantic opposite of what is meant to mitigate the literal content of the utterance. This feature makes litotes a useful mea...
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Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta
2020-06-01
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| Series: | Linguistica Pragensia |
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| Online Access: | https://linguisticapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2020/05/Tatiana_Szcyglowska_51-70.pdf |