Dibrova V. Linguistic and speech means of expressing negation in English and Ukrainian official and business discourse

The thesis suggests a new approach to the negation study in English and Ukrainian official and business communication as cognitive and discursive formation. General cultural tendencies in the sphere of English and Ukrainian speakers' official and business communication were determined. The methods of linguistic and speech means of negation comparison in English and Ukrainian official and business discourse were devised. The list of linguistic means on English and Ukrainian different system levels concerning to the possibility of the negative meaning realization in business discourse were determined. The frame "negation" cognitive mechanisms in English and Ukrainian speakers' official and business communication was analyzed. The speech means which obtain the negative semantics in frame models of English and Ukrainian speakers' business communication were compared