Constructions of Intersubjectivity shows that the meaning of grammatical constructions often
has more to do with the human cognitive capacity for taking other peoples' points of view …

This research emphasizes semantic, syntactic and pragmatic considerations illustrating a
wide array of linguistic approaches. Written from within the theoretical framework of …

The seed that would eventually grow to become this book was sown in the spring of 2000,
when I was assigned the topic for one of the two lectures that I was to give on the evening …

Litotes,“a figure of speech in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of the
contrary”(OED) has had some tough reviews. For Pope and Swift (“Scriblerus” 1727), litotes …

The aim of this paper is to clarify the distinctive and the shared features of the three
phenomena: irony, understatement, and litotes. These rhetorical figures have been defined …

Why do languages have such odd and complicated things as negative and positive polarity
items? Surely, life would be much easier without them, and to be entirely frank, I have not yet …

In natural languages, two negating elements that cancel each other out (as in not
impossible) are logically equivalent to the non-negated word form (in this case, possible). It …

The figurative use of double negations (not uninteresting, not unhappy) has been described
by linguists and rhetoricians with regards to the rhetorical figure litotes. Both mitigation and …

Litotes, often confused with meiosis and understatement, has long suffered neglect. By
comparing synonymous key words in previous definitions, this essay defines litotes as “a …

Auf Basis deutschsprachiger Korpusdaten stellt diese Studie Strukturen, Regelmäßigkeiten
sowie formale und funktionale Bedingungen der rhetorischen Figur Litotes heraus. Anhand …