Negativity is a phenomenon called negative concord in which all negatable forms are negated if sentence is negative. It is used in some non-standard English.

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Negativity is a phenomenon called negative concord in which all negatable forms are negated if sentence is negative. It is used in some non-standard English.

Double

negative African

American Vernacular English References:

Negative questions, in other words ones where the inverted auxiliary is negated tend to create an implicature that the speaker already has an opinion about the probable answer. Why are people ‘biased’? Why is the following question important? Let’s say the speaker suspects (or has suspected until very recently) that Mary gave the book to the listener yesterday: Didn’t Mary give

• you the book yesterday?

In the Original Poster’s example, the negation of auxiliary is is used to convey that the speaker suspects (or suspected until just now) that the proposition in the remainder of the clause is the case. It so happened in this example that the proposition that the speaker suspects is true is a negative one.

• There’s no need.

If a question is a simple yes or no then what does that mean?

• Did she give it to you?

What are the metric differences between the answers of the first and second questions? Is it true that after double negation a question is automatically cleared? In normal declarative sentences, negation changes the actual meaning of the sentence. She

• gave me the book. I’ve heard it many times, but this sucked.
• She didn’t give me the book.

If we add further negation, the truth conditional meaning of the sentence will be similar to the Non-negated sentence.

No real negation in questions to be cancelled by subsequent negation. As we have seen, as we have seen there is no real negation in questions to be cancelled out by further negation. A doubly negated question and a declarative sentence have something in common. All of the negative propositions mentioned by they both indicate that there is some previous negative proposition which has been entertained. In the original Poster’s example, it is the proposition that there is no need. In the book example above it is the idea that she didn’t give me the book (?

In answer to the original poster’s question then, the two negations in its answer don’t cancel each other out in any way. Arguably the different negations have different functions. One is there to indicate some previously supposed idea, the other is to show that the idea is negative.

There is no other way to do this apart from using double negation. Do you believe the non-truth conditional meaning of a sentence is as communicatively important as the truth conditional meaning of a sentence? This is the case with the original poster’s image. Which are the original ads? The communication of the presupposition on the part of the speaker that there is no need is part of the suasive force of the question.

Negative questions, in other words ones where the inverted auxiliary is negated tend to create an implicature that the speaker already has an opinion about the probable answer. Why are people ‘biased’? Why is the following question important? Let’s say the speaker suspects (or has suspected until very recently) that Mary gave the book to the listener yesterday: Didn’t Mary give

• you the book yesterday?

In the Original Poster’s example, the negation of auxiliary is is used to convey that the speaker suspects (or suspected until just now) that the proposition in the remainder of the clause is the case. It so happened in this example that the proposition that the speaker suspects is true is a negative one.

• There’s no need.

If a question is a simple yes or no then what does that mean?

• Did she give it to you?

What are the metric differences between the answers of the first and second questions? Is it true that after double negation a question is automatically cleared? In normal declarative sentences, negation changes the actual meaning of the sentence. She

• gave me the book. I’ve heard it many times, but this sucked.
• She didn’t give me the book.

If we add further negation, the truth conditional meaning of the sentence will be similar to the Non-negated sentence.

No real negation in questions to be cancelled by subsequent negation. As we have seen, as we have seen there is no real negation in questions to be cancelled out by further negation. A doubly negated question and a declarative sentence have something in common. All of the negative propositions mentioned by they both indicate that there is some previous negative proposition which has been entertained. In the original Poster’s example, it is the proposition that there is no need. In the book example above it is the idea that she didn’t give me the book (?

In answer to the original poster’s question then, the two negations in its answer don’t cancel each other out in any way. Arguably the different negations have different functions. One is there to indicate some previously supposed idea, the other is to show that the idea is negative.

There is no other way to do this apart from using double negation. Do you believe the non-truth conditional meaning of a sentence is as communicatively important as the truth conditional meaning of a sentence? This is the case with the original poster’s image. Which are the original ads? The communication of the presupposition on the part of the speaker that there is no need is part of the suasive force of the question.

Negative questions, in other words ones where the inverted auxiliary is negated tend to create an implicature that the speaker already has an opinion about the probable answer. Why are people ‘biased’? Why is the following question important? Let’s say the speaker suspects (or has suspected until very recently) that Mary gave the book to the listener yesterday: Didn’t Mary give

• you the book yesterday?

In the Original Poster’s example, the negation of auxiliary is is used to convey that the speaker suspects (or suspected until just now) that the proposition in the remainder of the clause is the case. It so happened in this example that the proposition that the speaker suspects is true is a negative one.

• There’s no need.

If a question is a simple yes or no then what does that mean?

• Did she give it to you?

What are the metric differences between the answers of the first and second questions? Is it true that after double negation a question is automatically cleared? In normal declarative sentences, negation changes the actual meaning of the sentence. She

• gave me the book. I’ve heard it many times, but this sucked.
• She didn’t give me the book.

If we add further negation, the truth conditional meaning of the sentence will be similar to the Non-negated sentence.

No real negation in questions to be cancelled by subsequent negation. As we have seen, as we have seen there is no real negation in questions to be cancelled out by further negation. A doubly negated question and a declarative sentence have something in common. All of the negative propositions mentioned by they both indicate that there is some previous negative proposition which has been entertained. In the original Poster’s example, it is the proposition that there is no need. In the book example above it is the idea that she didn’t give me the book (?

In answer to the original poster’s question then, the two negations in its answer don’t cancel each other out in any way. Arguably the different negations have different functions. One is there to indicate some previously supposed idea, the other is to show that the idea is negative.

There is no other way to do this apart from using double negation. Do you believe the non-truth conditional meaning of a sentence is as communicatively important as the truth conditional meaning of a sentence? This is the case with the original poster’s image. Which are the original ads? The communication of the presupposition on the part of the speaker that there is no need is part of the suasive force of the question.