A usage-based study of the just me construction

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yinchun Bai
Keyword(s):  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Construction Grammar ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Response Patterns ◽  
Conceptual Blending ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Alternative Question ◽  
Present Case Study ◽  
Pragmatic Aspects

AbstractA number of recent studies have emphasized the need for Construction Grammar to address the discourse-pragmatic characteristics of grammatical constructions. Much of how Construction Grammar incorporates pragmatic considerations of contextual factors into its descriptions of speakers’ linguistic knowledge remains to be worked out. In order to take a step towards that goal, this corpus-based study presents the just me construction and analyzes it from compositional, semantic and pragmatic perspectives. The study first delivers an in-depth description of the constrained and conventionalized composition of the construction. Then it proposes that the intricate semantic content is the result of formal and conceptual blending of the alternative question construction and the truncated it-cleft construction. Third, the pragmatic aspects of the just me construction are analyzed in terms of its hedging function, possible response patterns, and the conventionalized nature of its non-compositional meaning. All contribute to the recognition of the just me construction as a symbolic unit in the grammar of English. In conclusion, after a summary of the points made in previous sections, the insights gleaned from the present case study will be used to reflect in more general terms on the role of pragmatic considerations of contextual factors in Construction Grammar.

Language and creativity: a Construction Grammar approach to linguistic creativity

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Hoffmann
Keyword(s):  
Construction Grammar ◽  
Linguistic Theory ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Evolutionary Adaptation ◽  
Theory Construction ◽  
Conceptual Blending ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
Explanatory Account ◽  
The Way

AbstractCreativity is an important evolutionary adaptation that allows humans to think original thoughts, to find solutions to problems that have never been encountered before and to fundamentally change the way we live. One particular domain of human cognition that has received considerable attention is linguistic creativity. The present paper discusses how the leading cognitive linguistic theory, Construction Grammar, can provide an explanatory account of creativity that goes beyond the issue of linguistic productivity. At the same time, it also outlines how Construction Grammar can benefit from insights from Conceptual Blending.

Turkey's Public Diplomacy and Digital Communication Tools

2019 ◽  
pp. 205-225
Author(s):  
Oğuz Göksu
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
International Community ◽  
National Interests ◽  
The Public ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Pragmatic Aspects

In this chapter, the functional and pragmatic aspects of public diplomacy in Turkey are emphasized. The chapter tries to determine which values of Turkey are highlighted in the public diplomacy perspective. In general terms, it has been argued that the digital communication is an ideological understanding of public diplomacy practices or that the understanding that national interests are held in the forefront is heavy. In this study, two questions were asked in order to establish Turkey's public diplomacy perspective. The first question is What are the messages of Turkey to international community and foreign people in the digital age? The second question is How does Turkey communicate its message to the international community and foreign people in digital age and what tools do they use in this process? The answers to these questions were sought in general. The identified research questions were searched by digital applications, institutions' use of new media, and speech of person of government.

A comparison between Fluid Construction Grammar and Sign-Based Construction Grammar

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Remi van Trijp
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Construction Grammar ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge

Construction Grammar has reached a stage of maturity where many researchers are looking for an explicit formal grounding of their work. Recently, there have been exciting developments to cater for this demand, most notably in Sign-Based Construction Grammar (SBCG) and Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG). Unfortunately, like playing a music instrument, the formalisms used by SBCG and FCG take time and effort to master, and linguists who are unfamiliar with them may not always appreciate the far-reaching theoretical consequences of adopting this or that approach. This paper undresses SBCG and FCG to their bare essentials, and offers a linguist-friendly comparison that looks at how both approaches define constructions, linguistic knowledge and language processing.

Usage-based Theory and Exemplar Representations of Constructions

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan L. Bybee
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Construction Grammar ◽  
Repeated Exposure ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Token Frequency ◽  
The Creation

This chapter outlines a view of Construction Grammar in which the mental grammar of speakers is shaped by the repeated exposure to specific utterances, and in which domain-general cognitive processes such as categorization and cross-modal association play a crucial role in the entrenchment of constructions. Under this view, all linguistic knowledge is viewed as emergent and constantly changing. The chapter emphasizes that the process of chunking along with categorization leads to the creation of constructions. It also provides semantic/pragmatic and phonetic arguments for exemplar representation and a discussion of the role of type and token frequency in determining the structure of the schematic slots in constructions, as well as the productivity of constructions.

scholarly journals Working out multiword verbs within an Applied Cognitive Construction Grammar framework

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-86
Author(s):  
Sergio Torres-Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Argument Structure ◽  
Construction Grammar ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Focus On Form ◽  
Working Out ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Cognitive Construction Grammar

AbstractThis article presents a constructionist approach to the teaching of multiword verbs. To that end, I outline a pedagogical model, Applied Cognitive Construction Grammar (ACCxG), which is deemed to provide insight into a novel classification of multiword verbs as constructions (form-function pairings). The ACCxG framework integrates four cognitively-driven rationales, namely Focus on Form, Task-based Language Teaching, Data-driven Learning, and Paper-based Data-Driven Learning. It is argued that the syntax-semantics of multiword verbs can be better understood through recourse to their relation with syntactic constructions (Argument Structure Constructions). Endorsing this rationale entails, among other things, the recognition that the same general cognitive mechanisms intervening in the construction of our experience of the world are at play during the construction of linguistic knowledge.

scholarly journals USE OF LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE IN FORENSIC EXPERTISE. COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

2019 ◽  
pp. 435-441
Author(s):  
A. Svankulov
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Forensic Expertise ◽  
State Register ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Forensic Expert ◽  
The Republic

The article describes the use of linguistic and psychological knowledge in the forensic expert activity of the Republic of Kazakhstan as an independent form of complex psychological and philological research where experts who obtained knowledge in the field of psychology and philology take part. During the implementation of this type of research, research methods have been developed that are included in the State Register of Methods of Forensic Research of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In addition, the article states that further development of this area in forensic expert activities will contribute to the formation of a new type of research – Forensic Religious Expertise. The direct application of linguistic knowledge in conducting forensic expertises is subdivided into five areas, such as: expert examination of real works on charges of extremist activity, as well as on charges of violating racial, religious, national and social hate and hostility, linguistic examination of advertising texts and treaties, linguistic expert examination of trademarks, verbal study of crimes related to the propaganda of extremism and terrorism, in the investigation of corruption crimes, fraud, extortion. The article also shows the connection of the linguistic expertise with other types, for example, with a judicial video phonography examination, in case of the need for identification of the speaker by verbal speech on the phonogram under study, during the author’s examination for the authorship of the text, in the psychological and forensic expertise – for the solution of question of the learned speeches of the suspect, other persons during the interrogation, other investigative actions. The author presents the results of a comparative analysis of the use of linguistic knowledge abroad, in particular, in the UK. Its peculiarity is that linguistic research is carried out at scientific educational centers of the humanitarian orientation. The following directions in linguistic studies conducted in this country are considered: a) forensic authore-identification, the essence of which is the determining the authorship of oral or written text, individual characteristics of the author (age, way of life, religious and political views, nationality, gender, profession, etc., b) forensic phonetics which involves the use of phonetics and phonology – sections of linguistics, c) forensic stylistics aimed at solving issues related to the plagiarism of the semantic content of the texts, while the author states that in Kazakhstan the decision on this issue is assigned to the competence of authore-identification examination, d) discourse analysis as the most promising type of research at present, is connected with research of written, verbal text in combination with non-verbal means of communication (gestures, facial expressions). Key words: legal linguistics, discourse, psychological and philological examination, forensic authore-identification, products of speech activity, linguistic research, psychological research.

scholarly journals Semantics of the phraseological units with the component HUND in the modern German language

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Content ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Definite Article ◽  
German Language ◽  
Parts Of Speech ◽  
Figures Of Speech ◽  
Indefinite Article ◽  
Third Person ◽  
The Common ◽  
Pragmatic Aspects

The article is devoted to the semantics of the phraseological units with the component HUND in the modern German language research. The author defines the semantic content of the word HUND in the German language of the XXI century through a term, functional style and transferred meaning. Also the author distinguishes and specifies the etymology of the element, determines its original motivation – “one of the mountain animals”, which makes an appeal to the Early Indo-European language. The transferred meaning of the element under analysis in the semantic structure of the German language of the XX–XXI centuries is highlighted. Thorough analysis of the experimental card index made by author on the ground of such lexicographical sources as: the most authoritative German explanatory (“WAHRIG”) and phraseological (“DUDEN”) dictionaries, the bilingual phraseological dictionary of L.S. Osovetska and K.M. Silvestrova; the most complete among all German-Ukrainian dictionaries, where widely presented to phraseology – common figures of speech, idioms, phrases, stamps, sayings, proverb are presented (V. Müller), gave an opportunity to make some conclusion about the limitation of the lexical means of the semantics “dog” verbalization. The author proves that lexical means coincide with the zoological term being oriented at the same time onto the common and transferred usage. From the morphological point of view a dog is represented by two basic parts of speech: noun and pronoun. The noun is characterized by the grammatical categories of gender (masculine), number (single, plural), case (nominative, dative, accusative), definiteness (definite article), indefiniteness (indefinite article), omission (zero article). The pronoun is differentiated according to the semantics feature and is represented by the third person in plural in the nominative case; its parallel functions are defined as conjunction and subject of the subordinate sentence. The multiplicity of the semantics of the analyzed material predetermined by the lingual and extralingual factors is defined. The conclusions verify the widely know statements of linguists about the transfer of the term to the category of the common lexis, semantical development of a word under the influence of the linguistic and extralinguistic factors and the appearance of the semantic potential of a word in the communicative and pragmatic aspects.

scholarly journals Learners’ Dialogical Interaction in the Service of Linguistic Knowledge Acquisition in Group Settings: Based on Contextual Factors

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 1376
Author(s):  
Huanjie Wang
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Group Settings

This paper highlights some connections between dialogical interaction and knowledge acquisition in group settings. In learners’ quest to develop communicative competence and self-identity or social identity and acquire knowledge, dialogical interaction is applied to three contexts of knowledge-acquiring process where learners’ identity, learners’ mindset, learners’ rapport, learners’ communicative competence and learners’ knowledge are involved. Simply speaking, learners in collaborative contexts tend to share existing knowledge to generate potential knowledge; learners in competitive contexts are inclined to build knowledge, learners in cohesive contexts just use knowledge as a tool to organize knowledge. However, it is contended that dialogues are supposed to be explicitly regarded as part of the knowledge-acquiring process. There is a tendency to enable more effective knowledge acquisition through communicative talk, especially dialogues, in the interactive contexts with scaffoldings, tutoring or even intervention.

scholarly journals Relationship Between Internationalization and Eco-Innovation Strategies: a Brazilian chemical industry study

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (46) ◽  
pp. 6-24
Author(s):  
Marlete Beatriz Maçaneiro ◽  
Patrícia Stafusa Sala Battisti ◽  
Débora Andrea Liessem Vigorena ◽  
Pedro José Steiner Neto ◽  
Sieglinde Kindl da Cunha
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Environmental Standards ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Industry Study ◽  
Innovation Strategies ◽  
Reputation Effects

This study investigates the association of contextual factors with the adoption of eco-innovation strategies, comparing groups of internationalized and not internationalized companies. It also analyzes the average values of the adoption of these contextual factors and eco-innovation strategies in these two groups of companies. Research methodology follows a quantitative approach, being performed a cross-sectional survey in 124 Brazilian companies of chemicals manufacturing sector. Main results of the analysis showed better association between the contextual factors of support from top management, technological competence, environmental standards and proactive eco-innovation strategies, concerning not internationalized companies. Results also reveal that internationalized companies do not differ from those not internationalized, regarding the adoption of environmental regulatory factors, reputation effects, support from top management, reactive strategies and proactive strategies. In general terms, this outcome may indicate that the surveyed companies have been concerned about eco-innovation, regardless of the scope of their market.

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