In this important book, Lesley Jeffries introduces a phenomenon
which has not been given the attention it deserves - the contextual
construction of oppositional meaning. These are opposites not
recognisable as such out of context but that are clearly set up
this way in the text concerned. The significance of oppositional
meaning is well-known but the main emphasis has always been on the
conventional opposite: the opposite recognised by lexical
semantics. Starting from socio-cultural viewpoints, moving to
original research and then concluding with a new theoretical
formulation, this book introduces and consolidates a significant
new approach to the analysis of oppositional meaning. It closes
with a discussion of the importance of constructed opposition in
hegemonic practice and makes a case for the inclusion of opposition
as a central tool of critical discourse analysis. It is essential
reading for those in stylistics, linguistics and language studies.
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