Negation and conceptual effects

Goals

• To understand different types of negation and the kinds of conceptual effects it has on readers.
• To analyse the use of negation in a text.

Negation

Begin by explaining the concept of negation to your students. You might like to use the following definition (taken from the Englicious glossary):

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