uinimmiiitumiimanmu - Universidad Complutense de Madrid

In tred uc ti en
Neqatien ami affirmation appear te be inexorably linked.
Consciousness, se far as we know it, appears te be
a rhytbm of affirmatier, and neqation, a power of assertinq
ami denying, of censtitutinq and deletinq.
Languaqe, alio, ½ a relation between affirmatien ami neqation.
Tbe werd (or sigo) ½ a presence based en absences,
havinq meaning enly becaus eit distinquishes,
centrasts and exoludes.
It sesma inapeasible, therefore,
ce speak of a genealeqical order of naqation alene,
te define neqatien frena a past er ancearer of frs ewn
autaide of its perpetual polarity of neqation and affirmatien.
Kurrick (1979. 1)
1. Aims of the research
Neqatien may be viewed as a pun, a play upen the nema.
It ½ used when - more rarely in coTumunication
ene establishes Ube event rather Uhan inertia as Ube qreund.
On such a background, Ube non-event becomes - temporarily,
locally - more salient, Uhus more infermative.
Givón