Dialogic constructions and discourse units:: The case of think again
04 Dec 2020-Review of Cognitive Linguistics. Published under the auspices of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association (John Benjamins)-Vol. 18, Iss: 2, pp 480-518
TL;DR: This paper examined the notion of think again in synchronic, corpus-derived data and showed that it is a discourse construction that imposes a dialogic construal on its context and contributes fundamentally to discourse unit delimitation.
Abstract: Adopting a constructionally-oriented analysis, the present paper examines the pattern ‘think again’ (i.e., an instance of a mental state verb + adverbial adjunct) in synchronic, corpus-derived data. On the basis of both qualitative and quantitative analyses we show that think again merits constructional status in language; while it inherits features of fully-compositional meaning from its constituents it has also developed its own idiosyncratic properties. We further argue that think again may ultimately function as a discourse marker of challenge that regulates the relationship between Speaker (S) and Addressee (A), correlating with certain contextual regularities and interdependencies. It thus qualifies as a discourse construction that imposes a dialogic construal on its context and contributes fundamentally to discourse unit delimitation.
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