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This chapter introduces four more textual–conceptual functions of Critical Stylistics. They are concerned with the construction of opposition, the suggestion of completeness in enumerations, how information is prioritised in sentences and, finally, about implied and assumed meaning.
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Tabbert, U. (2016). Equivalence, opposition, enumeration, prioritising and implied meaning. In: Language and Crime. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45351-8_5
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