英语中“否定(Negation)”的结构分析

Analysis of Negation Structures in English

本文通过对否定的结构和修辞等特征进行分析,从而说明否定并不相对于肯定而存在,它应是一个相对独立的语言范畴。

Analyzing the structural and rhetorical features of negation in English, this paper proposes that negation in English should be approached as a self - existing language phenomenon instead of the negative varieties of positive structures, thus facilitating learners in composing correct structures in sentence - making associated with negation, in interpreting the ambiguity in meaning of negative structures and in choosing the proper Chinese wording in translation without being influenced by the English structure.