Can pictures say no or not? Negation and denial in the visual mode

Oversteegen, E.; Schilperoord, Joost

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2014.03.009

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“…However, some authors have defended recently an alternative account where negation does apply directly to images (Oversteegen & Schilperoord, 2014; see also Waskan, 2006). They presented images and observed that participants described them with a negation.…”

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Visual content of words delays negation

Orenes

Santamaría

2014

Acta Psychologica

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Visual content of words delays negation

Orenes

Santamaría

2014

Acta Psychologica

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“…Ho discussed the performance of denial in the comment response genre--management responses to address negative online comments made by dissatisfied customers, and summarized that denial, whether used alone or in series, could aim at the asserted information, the rationality of customers, the responsibility of hotels and the seriousness of problems [1]. From the perspective of social semiotics, Oversteegen & Schilperoord (2014) explored some possibilities of visual negation and found that the essence of visual negation or denial was to some extent paradoxical to make it highly prominent by not displaying objects or attributes [11]. Bressem & Müller (2014) studied a set of gestures like sweeping away, holding away, throwing away and brushing away used by Germans in expressing negative acts such as denial [12].…”

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A Corpus-Driven Study of the Multimodal Representational Characteristics of Chinese Children’s Denial

Wang¹,

Qian²

2021

IJLL

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As multimodal communication develops by leaps and bounds, children's multimodal act has increasingly attracted attention, which makes understanding systematically multimodal act of children become essential. This quantitative study analyzes the multimodal characteristics of Chinese children's acts of denial through observing 110 cases of multimodal denial acts of a Mandarin-speaking boy as a case study from the perspective of Multimodal Discourse Analysis. As is shown, compared with verbal denial and non-verbal denial, multimodal denial employed by the target boy occupies the largest proportion of 74.5%, and the most common inter-semiotic relationship is equivalence, accounting for 66%, rather than complementary or supplementary interaction. What's more, the frequencies of the target boy's denial toward the three groups of interlocutors, that is, the elders, the peers and the non-relatives, are different, and denial against the elders as the most common includes 61 cases making up 55.4%, among which the frequency of denial toward the mother takes the first position. By figuring out the characteristics of multimodal denial of the target boy and drawing corresponding implications, this paper endeavors to provide some instructive suggestions to parenting. In daily communication with children, parents need to pay enough attention to children's multimodal acts and react accordingly and properly with both verbal and non-verbal sources so as to create an efficient communication, which are conducive to some positive parent-child education and interaction.

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“…It is worth mentioning the researchers' attempt (Oversteegen, & Schilperoord, 2014) to identify images that imply negation. The authors argue that specific embodiments may convey negative content.…”

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Metaphors with Implicit Negation in Modern English and Ukrainian: Сognitive and Linguodidactic Aspects

Bahan¹,

Valiukh²,

Muntian³

2020

AWEJ

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This article focuses on the cross-linguistic cognitive study of English and Ukrainian metaphors with implicit negation. The paper aims to prove that some metaphors imply the meaning of negation in the dialogues and monologues and to identify the common and divergent parameters of the cognitive-figurative realization of negation in English and Ukrainian. The investigation is grounded on the methods of comparative analysis, conceptual analysis, contextual analysis, and analysis of the dictionary definitions. The study of communicative-pragmatic features of the use of metaphors reveals that they perform the objecting function in the media. Still, they differ from specialized grammatical means of negation in the emotional and associative background, dependence on the context, and vast opportunities of the interpretation. The obtained results indicate that in both languages, metaphors with the implicit negation are connected to the verbalization of the same nine basic concepts: UNTRUTH, INVALIDITY, FAILURE, INEFFICACIOUSACY, RELUCTANCE, UNCERTAINTY, USELESSNESS, INACTION, ABSENCE OF PROSPECT. The study found that often such metaphors are the result of transferring close or similar domains. The authors conclude that English and Ukrainian, despite the fundamental differences in the grammatical realization of the negation, are very similar in the ways of formation the metaphors with the negative meaning. The paper gives some methodological recommendations for a more effective study of the metaphors with implicit negation in the higher educational institutions.

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Can pictures say no or not? Negation and denial in the visual mode

Cited by 12 publications

References 32 publications

Visual content of words delays negation

Visual content of words delays negation

A Corpus-Driven Study of the Multimodal Representational Characteristics of Chinese Children’s Denial

Metaphors with Implicit Negation in Modern English and Ukrainian: Сognitive and Linguodidactic Aspects

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