DOUBLE NEGATION IN ENGLISH. REASONS FOR USE BY THE SPEAKER, PERCEPTION BY THE LISTENER, WAYS OF ENHANCING COMMUNICATION

Abstract

The research aims at outlining the category of double negation in English and reinterpretation of classical understanding of this construction. The article outlines possible benefits from using the given construction and possible problems, which it may create in communication. The authors combine pragmatical and psycholinguistic approaches to the given grammatical construction, the examples of the reasons are given, which may have contributed to the usage of the given construction and the reasons of misunderstandings because of the loss of meaning in the process of communication. The analysis of the given construction from the point of view of the speaker and the listener gives the opportunity to understand the logic behind it and predisposition of English towards double negation as well as the artificial influence of Lantin over the process of disappearance of the unique construction in English Grammar. In Future it may be the basis to prove the standardness of this construction.