Malin RoitmanMalin Roitman is Associate Professorin French at Stockholm University. Her research deals especially with argumentation and pragmatic phenomena in media and political discourse, especially the presidential election debates in France. She has mainly ben interested in the use of negation as an argumentation strategy in political and media discourse. Furthermore, Malin has published studies on the self-representation (the use the first-person pronoun "I"), (ethos), the terms of address, and the denomination of national identity in French presidential election debates. She has published two books gathering studies on the function of negation in different languages: The Pragmatics of Negation: Negative Meanings, Uses and Discursive Functions (JB Publishing Company, 2017) and Negatives and Meaning: Social Setting and Pragmatic Effects: Using Negatives in Political Discourse, Social Media and Oral Interaction. (Stockholm: Stockholm University Press 2023). ORCID: https: //orcid.org/0000-0001-7045-7557 Read More Read Less