Linguistic negation, logical negation and rebuttal sentence

Abstract

In this article, the authors distinguish between linguistic negation, logical negation and rebuttal sentence, a type of meta-linguistic negation that is typical in Vietnamese. Rebuttal sentence is an indirect linguistic act of interrogation. People question-refute everything that the speaker considers false, from the obvious to the implied, from the whole to every detail. Therefore, the types of rebuttal sentences in Vietnamese are very rich. Various types of rebuttals have been investigated. Vietnamese people often use questioning to refute.