Citations:misnegation


 * 2013, Michael Moore, "On Errors in language", ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 70(1):45:
 * Misnegations present still another type of un-critical thinking. The latter often involve the co-occurrence of several negations (or negating components), which the source of an utterance fails to correctly evaluate.
 * 2015, Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, penguin Books, p. 173:
 * Writers themselves can lose track and put too many of them into a word or sentence, making it mean the opposite of what they intended. The linguist Mark Liberman calls them misnegations, and points out that “they're easy to fail to miss”.
 * 2018, Laurel J. Brinton, "The development and pragmatic function of a non-inference marker: this is not to say (that)", paper presented at the 2018 International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English conference (ICAME 39):
 * Liberman discusses the existence of rare "triple negative" forms, which he calls "misnegations". These are likewise interpreted as positive and call for rather nuanced interpretations.
 * 2019, Amy Einsohn & Marilyn Schwartz, The Copyeditor's Handbook: A Guide for Book Publishing and Corporate Communications, University of California Press, p. 420:
 * Unless the irony is intentional, these sentences, of course, say the opposite of what is meant. A classic example of mis-negation in logic is the statement "No head injury is too trivial to ignore."