Received 27.02.2024, Revised 17.05.2024, Accepted 11.06.2024

IMPLICIT NEGATION IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: LINGUISTIC MEANS OF EXPRESSION AND FEATURES OF FUNCTIONING

M.S. Baiamanova, k.N. Zhumagazy

This article explores how implicit negation, a form of negation that is not directly expressed in a language, is employed in contemporary English. It analyses lexical, grammatical, and stylistic methods of conveying negative meanings through examples from fiction and everyday conversations. Implicit negation relies on the context and semantics of linguistic units such as negative verbs, prefixes, rhetorical questions, irony, and sarcasm. This highlights the role of implicit negation in politeness strategies and softening of the tone of statements. Understanding implicit negation can deepen the connection between language and thought, with applications in English language teaching, translation, and intercultural communication

means of expressing negation, semantics of negation, pragmatics of negation, negation in discourse, phraseological units with negation, category of negation, implicitness, context, stylistics, rhetorical questions
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Baiamanova, M.S., & Zhumagazy, k.N. (2024). IMPLICIT NEGATION IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: LINGUISTIC MEANS OF EXPRESSION AND FEATURES OF FUNCTIONING. Bulletin of the Bishkek State University, 22(2), 23-26. https://doi.org/10.35254/bsu/2024.68.04

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