| Titre | Les locutions à polarité négative : une approche stéréotypique | |
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| Auteur | Silvia Palma | |
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Revue | Langages |
| Numéro | no 162, juin 2006 Polarité, négation et scalarité, sous la direction de Silvia Palma | |
| Page | 61-72 | |
| Résumé anglais |
A study of negative polarity idioms –NPI– (e.g. not lift a finger, not say a word) within the theoretical framework of stereotypical theory (Kleiber, Anscombre) is proposed in our paper. From our point of view, generic phrases underlying sentences with NPIs play a crucial role in the presence of a negation. As a matter of fact, a sentence like Peter didn't lift a finger for his sister doesn't actually deny *Peter lifted a finger for his sister but rather a sort of general rule related to stereotypical contents: “people help their close relations”. Negation in NPIs is then a trace, a sign of this opposition between a general belief and a particular case which seems to be a counter-example. This perspective shows several common points between phrases including NPIs and phrases including positive polarity items. Source : Éditeur (via Cairn.info) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.cairn.info/article.php?ID_ARTICLE=LANG_162_0061 |
