Author: O.I. Oparina
Affiliation: Lomonosov Moscow State University
Abstract: The article deals with negation as the reflection of mental activity, ideas and communicative strategy of a particular person. A fragment from B. Russell’s work is taken for the analysis. It has illustrated a variety of linguistic means used to render negative meaning and usage of the principle of opposition to reveal the logic of thinking and to change the existing knowledge models.
Keywords: knowledge, negation, stereotype, mental activity, opposition
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