Discourse Constructions in English: Meaning, Form, and Hierarchies (Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics)

✍ Scribed by Aneider Iza Erviti

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 173
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book emphasizes the advantages of examining discourse connectivity from a constructionist perspective and highlights the role of discourse configurations in the construction of meaning. The research contained advances the field of cognitive classification and categorization of discourse constructions. The text is a great improvement in the discourse analysis literature, since it uniquely clarifies the subtleties of meaning between different discourse markers that are frequently treated as equivalent by lexicographers. It is unique in being the first contribution to the creation of a Constructicon at the discourse level and it fills an important gap within cognitively oriented constructionist accounts that have mostly restricted their analyses to argument-structure and illocutionary constructions. This yearbook appeals to students and researchers working within corpus linguistics.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Contents
Abbreviations
About the Editor
Chapter 1: Introduction
References
Chapter 2: From Discourse Markers to Construction Grammar(s) in Discourse
2.1 Discourse Markers
2.2 A Critical Revision of Constructionist Approaches
2.2.1 Lakoff’s CxG
2.2.2 Goldberg’s Cognitive Construction Grammar (CCG)
2.2.3 Bergen and Chang’s Embodied Construction Grammar
2.2.4 Fluid Construction Grammar
2.2.5 Berkeley Construction Grammar (BCG)
2.2.6 Boas’s Frame-Semantic Construction Grammar
2.2.7 Sign Based Construction Grammar (SBCG)
2.2.8 Langacker’s Cognitive Grammar (CG)
2.2.9 Croft’s Radical Construction Grammar
2.2.10 Final Considerations
2.3 The Lexical Constructional Model (LCM)
2.4 Constructions at the Discourse Level
2.5 Family Resemblance Relations Among Discourse Constructions
References
Chapter 3: Research Methodology
3.1 Computerized Corpora
3.1.1 The British National Corpus (BYU-BNC)
3.1.2 The Contemporary Corpus of American English (COCA)
3.1.3 WebCorp
3.2 Dictionaries as Corpora
3.3 Google Searches
3.4 Langackerian Notions of Meaning Base, Profile and Active Zones for the Classification of Constructions at the Level of Discourse
3.5 Steps Followed in the Analysis of the Data
References
Chapter 4: Complementary Alternation Constructions
4.1 Neutral Complementary Alternation Constructions
4.2 Understatement Constructions
4.3 Expanding Constructions
4.4 Condensing Constructions
References
Chapter 5: Complementary Contrastive Constructions
5.1 Neutral Complementary Contrastive Constructions
5.2 Concessive Complementary Contrastive Constructions
5.3 Correcting Complementary Contrastive Constructions
5.4 Topic Changing Complementary Contrastive Constructions
5.5 Topic Avoiding Complementary Contrastive Constructions
5.6 Refusal-Apology Complementary Contrastive Constructions
5.7 Evaluative Complementary Contrastive Constructions
References
Chapter 6: Contrast Constructions
6.1 Contraposition Constructions
6.2 Exception Constructions
6.3 Alternative-Contrastive Constructions
6.4 Disagreement Constructions
References
Chapter 7: Conclusions
References
Author Index
Subject Index