The Negative Types and Negation Patterns of "Is It X or Y?" in Rhetorical Questions
This paper focuses on the negative types and negative patterns of the rhetorical question"Is it X or Y".From the perspectives of the three conceptual domains of"action,knowledge and speech",the negation of this rhetorical question is mainly in the domain of knowledge,and also involves the negation in the domain of action and the domain of speech.Rhetorical question"Is it X or Y"is an indirect negative sentence form that achieves the purpose of negation by asking a rhetorical question to the premise of triggering,which can be categorized into"premise-trigger"unified mode,derivatized mode,implicated modes in accordance with the degree of directness of the response.It is a kind of strategic negation,which has the function of intellectual debate,characterizing the speaker's position and demonstrating the power of discourse.
"Is It X or Y"types of negationpatterns of negationfunctional values
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