Open AccessThe cognitive-functional properties of English WH-dialogic constructions in discourse
Author(s) -
Guocai Zeng
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
forum for linguistic studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2705-0610
pISSN - 2705-0602
DOI - 10.18063/fls.v1i1.1080
Subject(s) - dialogic , cohesion (chemistry) , linguistics , cognition , schema (genetic algorithms) , cognitive grammar , psychology , cognitive linguistics , grammar , construct (python library) , sociology , computer science , philosophy , pedagogy , chemistry , organic chemistry , neuroscience , machine learning , programming language
Within the theoretical frameworks of cognitive linguistics and cognitive construction grammar, this papertakes the pair of a WH-question and one of its answers in contemporary spoken English as the research object and regards such pairs as WH-dialogic constructions. In this study we construct an Event-based Schema-Instance Cognitive Model (ESI model) to analyze the cognitive-functional properties of this category of dialogic constructions. The discoursal expansion and textual cohesion in discourse achieved through the application of such dialogic constructions indicate that the usage of WH-dialogic constructions is one of the basic cognitive strategies for human beings to construe the objective world.