The Ways of Naysaying: No, Not, Nothing, and Nonbeing

by Eva Brann

No, that diminutive but independent vocable, begins its great role early in human life and never loses it. For not only can it head a negative sentence, announcing its judgement, or answer a question, implying its negated content, it can, and mostly does, in the beginning of speech, express an assertion of the resistant will--sometimes just that and nothing more. The adult antiphony to the toddler's incessant no is another no, that of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742512282
• ISBN13: 9780742512283
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"