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areopposite to each other，and there is no middle terms between them，such as black and notblack，poor and not poor; In contrary negation, the two terms involved are contrary to eachother and between them, we can also find the middle terms，such as white and black，hot andcold(FeiYafu,1991;2-3).Jespersen (1917:464-488 ),another scholar who studies negative sentences for a longtime and in his article Negation in English and Other Languages, holds that negation can bedivided into two kinds; general negation and special negation. The former means that thenegative word is placed in the predicate of the sentence, while in the latter situation, thenegative word is placed in the other parts of the sentence except the predicate. Moreover, heindicates that negation varies with the contextual factors. For example, in oral English, wecan see that the negator which is used to negate another part in the sentence is transferred tonegate the predicate; and double negation will be found in nonstandard English.
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2.2 Mitigation
Mitigation is widely used in all languages, and it has a long history. Dating back toLatin period，“to mitigate" means “to make mild and gentle" and its nominalization of"mitigation" is related with environmental sciences and contexts. Ever since LakofF studies itin the view of linguistics, Mitigation becomes the hot topic of the study. Many researchershave made contributions to the study of it including its definition and its functions and so on.Although we couldn't make the exact definition of mitigation, even or different researchersmay definite its functions differently, they all have the valuable meaning to this thesis. Daaet (1980:525) doesn't define the term of mitigation，he just describes "to mitigate，，as rhetorical devices, the function of which is to soften the forces of some unpleasant aspectsof an utterance on the speaker or the hearer.Later on, the definition of mitigation becomes the hot topic in the studies of scholars.Fraser (1980) firstly offers a definition of mitigation that mitigation is to reduce anticipatedunwelcome effect which a speech act has on the hearer. Besides, he restricts that mitigationoccurs only when the speech act causes unwelcome effect, including driven of fear to causediscomfort to himself and driven of fear to cause discomfort to others，so congratulations andpraise can't be mitigated because they have not unwelcome effect
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Chapter Three Theoretical Framework........ 12
3.1 Interpersonal Meaning ........12
3.2 Interpersonal Metaphor........ 16
3.2.1 Metaphor of Mood ........17
3.2.2 Metaphor of Modality........ 17
Chapter Four Research Methodology........ 19
4.1 Data Collection ........19
4.2 Research Method........ 19
4.3 Statistics ........19
Chapter Five Realization of Interpersonal Meaning........ 21
5.1 Modal Adjuncts ........21
5.2 Parentheses........ 25
5.3 Modal Verbs........ 29
5.4 Transferred Negation........ 31
5.5 Pronouns........ 36
5.6 Tag Questions........ 38

Chapter Six Interpersonal Function in the Mitigation of Negation

6.1 Keeping Image
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