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The 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 , cognitive linguistics , psychology , 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.

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