A Truth-Functional Account of Metalinguistic Negation, With Evidence from Korean  

Oleh:

Carston, Robyn ; Noh, Eun-Ju

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language Sciences (Full Text) vol. 18 no. 1-2 (1996), page 485-504.
Topik: relevance theory; decoding vs. inference; underdeterminacy; garden-pathing; functional; implicit vs. explicit; description vs. metarepresentation; echoic use.
Fulltext: 18_01-02_Carston.pdf (1.23MB)

Isi artikel

The metalinguistic use of 'not' has been brought to prominence by the work of Laurence Horn (1985, 1989), who characterizes it as a marked, non-truth-functional use of negation, not reducible to the standard truth-functional operator. We argue that the essential property of metalinguistic negation is that it involves the echoic use (in the sense of Sperber and Wilson (1986)) of material falling within the scope of the negation operator. An account in these terms dissolves the appearance of ambiguity in the negation operator itself. The negation operator is uniformly truth-functional in both its descriptive and metalinguistic uses, and the two uses fall out from a quite general fact about language: it may be used to represent states of affairs or to represent other representations, including other utterances. This analysis receives support from an investigation of data from Korean, a language which is unrelated to English and in which sentence negation may take two distinct linguistic forms, one of which has been claimed to favour a metalinguistic interpretation.

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