On the Communicative Aspects of Negation as a Negative Evaluation of Truth

Negative assessment of truth as one of the semantic functions of negation in a natural language is examined using Russian material with special attention to the communicative aspect, ie, the theme-rheme division of negative statements & their relationship to the affirmative antecedent. The logic of negation is studied & the formula "it is not true that P" & its variant "the statement that P is not true" are analyzed. The modal & temporal aspects of refutation, denial, & negation are examined & implicit & explicit expressions of negative evaluations of truth are investigated. 21 References. Z. Dubiel