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Face Management and Negative Strengthening: The Role of Power Relations, Social Distance, and Gender

Auteur(s)
Gotzner, Nicole
Mazzarella, Diana 
Institut des sciences de la communication et de la cognition 
Date de parution
2021-9-27
In
Frontiers in Psychology
No
12
De la page
602977
A la page
602977
Revu par les pairs
1
Mots-clés
  • experimental pragmatics
  • polarity
  • negation
  • experimental pragmati...

  • polarity

  • negation

Résumé
Negated gradable adjectives often convey an interpretation that is stronger than their literal meaning, which is referred to as ‘negative strengthening.’ For example, a sentence like ‘John is not kind’ may give rise to the inference that John is rather mean. Crucially, negation is more likely to be pragmatically strengthened in the case of positive adjectives (‘not kind’ to mean rather mean) than negative adjectives (‘not mean’ to mean rather kind). A classical explanation of this polarity asymmetry is based on politeness, specifically on the potential face threat of bare negative adjectives (Horn, 1989; Brown and Levinson, 1987). This paper presents the results of two experiments investigating the role of face management in negative strengthening. We show that negative strengthening of positive and negative adjectives interacts differently with the social variables of power, social distance, and gender.
Identifiants
https://libra.unine.ch/handle/123456789/29518
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10.3389/fpsyg.2021.602977
Type de publication
journal article
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 main article: 2021-09-27_3154_6217.pdf (1 MB)
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