Acknowledgements; Chapter One: What are opposites?; Chapter Two: How opposites are constructed in texts and what they mean; Chapter Three: Literary effects of constructed opposition; Chapter Four: The role of opposition-construction in discourse meanings; Chapter Five: The significance of opposition in language and texts; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
Summary
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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-140) and index
