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　　对《玻璃之城》该书中语法的分析----英语文学论文 --Chapter One Introduction 1.1 Literature as Discourse ey (1993) gives a broader sense to context, the context of society. According to him,“pragmatics is the study of the conditions of human language uses as these are determined bythe context of society.” There is no pragmatic study can be done without actual situation ofcontext. Thus, it is n --ecessary to concern atic study of negation. Givón (1989) holds that “pragmatics is an approach to description… at its core lies the notion ofcontext”, and a real understanding of negation must take contextual factors into account, butnot just regard it as a simple reverse of the truth value just as in the logical tradition.Therefore, ples in real contexts for meaningful pragmatic studies ofnegation (Jordan 1998). 1.3 Significance of This Study This study makes an analyses of negation based on conversational implicature, relevancetheory and presupposition and explores the discourse functions of negation Paul Auster’s master odel of negation the previous semantic orientedstudies and illustrates the functions of negation pt at the bination of linguistics and literature. 1.4 Layout of This thesis The ain themes of this novel.The third chapter offers the theoretical frameplicature, relevance theory and presupposition.The fourth chapter explores the functions of negation applying to the discussion ofrelevant extracts from the novel City ofGlass.Thelast chapter draportant points of the thesis and points out the significance and limitations of this study. Chapter Tebackground information about Paul Auster and his ed as a universal linguistic phenomenon, and plays a very importantrole in everyday social interactions and sentence processing in language. Asher and Simpson(1994) point out: “negation is a linguistic universal; for cognitive and pragmatic reasons everylanguage must have the possibility of asserting that the state of affairs expressed by a sentenceis not true.” According to Quirk (19 --85),