Negation is often regarded as a distinctive stylistic device with significant foregrounding effects and emotional functions.This study examines the distribution and usage of negation in the narrative novel Light in August from the per-spective of corpus stylistics,exploring how negation represents emotions in the novel.It is found that the negation in Light in August depicts the characters'complex emotions,such as fear,forlornness,pain,struggle,indifference,happiness and hope,thereby evoking emotional responses in readers through delicate expressions and stylistic techniques and further enriching the emotional layers of the novel.The study of the emotional representation of negation contributes to uncovering the emotional content of narrative fictions.
negationemotional representationLight in Augustcorpus stylistics
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