Sharma, Saumya
(2018)
Opposition in
discourse: the
construction of
oppositional meaning.
Language and Language Teaching, 7 (1).
ISSN 2277-307X
Abstract
Lesley Jeffries looks at a hitherto underresearched but over-used phenomenon, namely,
the creation of opposites in language. Unlike
works that begin with a theoretical exposition,
Jeffries begins with a few examples from
different genres, setting the tone and thematic
concern of the book. The first example, taken
from the British political elections, draws on the
opposition between being British and being
Black. Jeffries states that opposites are
manufactured in a discourse with an ideological
agenda while the subsequent example from
poetry emphasizes that opposites are often used
by poets as a structural device.
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