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To be fair, "yeah, right" is a sarcastic statement and linguistically the two words do not scope eachother so the positive statement is produced at the pragmati
by gillesjacobs 6y ago
To be fair, "yeah, right" is a sarcastic statement and linguistically the two words do not scope eachother so the positive statement is produced at the pragmatic level, double negatives are syntactico-semantic.