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Eve Sweetser, « Negative spaces: Levels of negation and kinds of spaces », Presses universitaires François-Rabelais
Mental spaces theory offers useful tools for handling long-observed facts about negation, such as the evocation of the corresponding positive situation and its participants: negative sentences regularly bring up one more space than positives. The mental-space construction possibilities become even more numerous when we note that negation may involve one of various levels of mental space representation (content, epistemic, speech-act, and metalinguistic). Interestingly for stylistics and literary theory, this mental spaces analysis can help us to understand how negation has enriched possibilities for expression of multiple and embedded viewpoints: e.g., praeteritio, irony, humor, and depiction of unassertive or vacillating personality