Imperative-based dialogic constructions and discourse units Vassiliki Geka, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geka, Vassiliki, Author.

Series:

Constructional Approaches to Language Series

Constructional Approaches to Language Series v.39

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Imperative.

English language.

Construction grammar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company 2025

Summary:

"This book weaves together constructions, imperatives, dialogicity, and discourse units. How can that be? This is precisely the question it sets out to answer by working at the crossroads of Construction Grammar (CxG), Corpus Linguistics (CL), and Interactional Linguistics (IL). Profiting from this cross-fertilising synergy, the book singles out BELIEVE (YOU) ME, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THINK AGAIN and MIND YOU as its objects of study, offers an empirical analysis of their properties and situates them within an entrenched and far-reaching, yet conveniently 'camouflaged', network of dialogic perspectivisation. In so doing, the book provides novel insights into the mental state verbal fillers of the constructions alongside their imperative-induced non-compositionality and dialogicity which motivate their function as discourse unit framing agents and, per extension, discourse operators. The book thus makes a case for CxG's ability to go beyond its assumed word-, or phrase-based 'comfort zone' and address phenomena at a micro-, meso- and macro-discourse level with across-the-board benefits"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction and scope

Theoretical perspectives on foundational concepts

Methodological challenges: sampling and research design

The BELIEVE-family constructions

THINK AGAIN

MIND YOU

The dialogic perspectivisation network and beyond

Conclusion and future research prospects

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Other Format:

Print version Geka, Vassiliki Imperative-based dialogic constructions and discourse units

Print version:

ISBN:

902724491X

9789027244918

OCLC:

1518553660

Publisher Number:

CIPO000225518

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license