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2004
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Anne-Marie Lilti, « Négation d'un terme marqué et procédés de modalisation », Langue française, ID : 10670/1.3k9eu4
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This paper focuses on statements such as Cette critique n’est pas infondée, Ce n’est pas faux, interpreted in relationship to Cette critique est fondée, C’est vrai; in other words, a given statement that combines negation with a marked term is opposed to the corresponding positive one with the unmarked term. The author shows that, eventhough such negative statements do not necessarily function as litotes, they systematically express the speaker’s attitude towards the viewpoint that corresponds to the positive statement with the unmarked term. This is precisely the role they play not only when used in concessive structures, but also in “question-answer” types of interactions.