The Role of Literary Texts in King Faisal University Female Undergraduates' Acquisition of the Semantic Functions of Negation

Abstract

Abstract Negation as a language universal formed a hot and controversial topic for scholars from the fields of logic, psychology and linguistics. Extensive body of research focuses on its syntactic aspects, but its semantics are mostly ignored. In this thesis, the researcher investigates this phenomenon. The specific aspect under investigation is the acquisition of the semantic functions of negation via literary texts