Illocutionary constructions in English: Cognitive motivation and linguistic realization
Nuria Del Campo Martínez
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Illocutionary constructions in English: Cognitive motivation and linguistic realization

A study of the syntactic realizations of the directive, commissive and expressive speech acts in English

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Grounded in the Lexical Constructional Model (LCM), a usage-based meaning construction model of language of recent design, this research argues that illocutionary meaning either results from filling in constructional variables such as X in the Can You XVP? construction or from affording access to abstract situational cognitive models through the metonymic activation of relevant elements of their structure. One such model is the Cost-Benefit Cognitive Model, which is incorporated into the description of pragmatic meaning and presented as lying at the core of the conventionalization process of i...