Illocutionary constructions: Cognitive motivation
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Mendoza, Francisco José Ruiz de; Baicchi, Annalisa

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“…Peña (2015) and Ruiz de Mendoza and Luzondo (2016) have studied the licensing role of high-level metaphor in fake reflexive resultatives and of high-level metonymy in caused-motion constructions. Related work is found in Ruiz de Mendoza and Baicchi (2007), Luzondo (2011), andRosca (2012), among others. Although high-level metaphor and metonymy have been previously accounted for in some of the constructionist literature, these phenomena have not been dealt with in Urdu, which is a morphologically ergative language.…”

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Las construcciones de fingimiento de inglés y urdu: el caso de las construcciones incoativas y medias

Hayat Khan

2024

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Este artículo compara las construcciones incoativas y medias en dos lenguas tipológicamente diferentes, inglés y urdu. Estas construcciones, que están estrechamente relacionadas, se han tratado en estudios formales y funcionales del lenguaje, principalmente en inglés. No han recibido mucha atención en Lingüística Cognitiva, y mucho menos desde un punto de vista inter-lingüístico. Por esta razón, el presente artículo muestra que las perspectivas cognitiva e inter-lingüística pueden combinarse fructíferamente para mostrar las restricciones de uso de estas construcciones, lo que determina su significado potencial. La elección de urdu e inglés es significativa. El inglés es una lengua acusativa, mientras que el urdu es una lengua ‘split-ergative’ que combina características de los idiomas ergativo y acusativo. Esta diferencia definitivamente afecta la forma en que los hablantes manejan las construcciones incoativas y medias. Además, comprender la motivación del uso del lenguaje es fundamental para comprender la naturaleza de estas construcciones y cómo se relacionan. Las construcciones incoativas y medias son un tipo de construcciones de fingimiento, es decir, aquellas que involucran la reconstrucción de estados, situaciones y eventos (Ruiz de Mendoza & Miró, 2019), que a menudo están motivadas por fenómenos como la metáfora y la metonimia. El estudio inter-lingüístico de los ejemplos en ambas lenguas nos ha permitido buscar los principios que subyacen en las expresiones. El análisis, además de contribuir a la comprensión de las diferencias conceptuales entre el inglés y el urdu, identifica y tiene en cuenta los factores limitantes relevantes que se derivan de las diferencias tipológicas (p. ej., el uso de verbos ligeros en urdu) y las restricciones gramaticales (p. ej., la promoción de un elemento depende de su condición habilitante en urdu). El punto de convergencia siempre ha sido el carácter de fingimiento de las construcciones.

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Las construcciones de fingimiento de inglés y urdu: el caso de las construcciones incoativas y medias

Hayat Khan

2024

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“…Ruiz de Mendoza and Baicchi (2006) argue that the illocutionary activities operated by requests require other elements that have not been taken into account by Thornburg and Panther's (1997) illocutionary scenarios. These include the power relations between interlocutors, the degree of optionality conveyed by the illocutionary act, and the degree of politeness (p. 7).…”

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“…These include the power relations between interlocutors, the degree of optionality conveyed by the illocutionary act, and the degree of politeness (p. 7). For Ruiz de Mendoza and Baicchi (2006), these elements heavily constrain a requester's choice between different grammatical options when s/he decides to construct a request, which, in turn, emphasizes their assumption that the illocutionary scenarios of requests should also contain variables instantiated by further linguistic items, like mitigating devices (e.g., the vocative [my Lord] in light of this paper) or inserts (e.g., please), which are instances of (low) power and (high) optionality parameters. Ruiz de Mendoza and Baicchi (2006, p. 10) conclude that illocutionary constructions are best viewed as a group of grammatical resources that are incorporated to activate relevant parts of an illocutionary scenario in connection to a context of the situation, which may activate other parts of the scenario in a complementary fashion.…”

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Requests as macro-speech act motivators in Qur’anic dialogues

Khafaga

2024

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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Besides their linguistic nature of directivity that necessitates a verbal and/or physical response, requests can also function as linguistic motivators of macro-speech acts. Based on this assumption, this paper explores the extent to which requests in some Qur’anic dialogues not only elicit a response but also motivate a sequence of ancillary speech acts that forms a macro-speech act communicating one macro-proposition. This objective is primarily pursued in light of an eclectic framework constituting van Dijk’s (1977) concept of macro-speech acts, Thornburg and Panther’s (1997) illocutionary scenarios, contributions on speech act theory and requests (e.g., Austin, 1962; Searle, 1979), and Blum-Kulka et al.’s (1989) categorization of modification strategies of requests. Three main findings are revealed in this paper: first, in some Qur’anic dialogues, requests are employed not only to create a position for a response or fulfillment on the part of addressees but also to motivate a sequence of other ancillary speech acts constituting one macro-speech act and profiling a shared logic-semantics representation. Second, unlike ordinary requests, macro-speech act requests (MSARs) in Qur’anic dialogues exhibit a high degree of contingency and a low degree of entitlement. Third, MSARs in Qur’anic dialogues are structured around three illocutionary scenarios, are modified internally and externally, and are illocutionary polysemous.

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“…Within this framework, illocution has been treated as a matter of inferential activity based on the activation of specific types of cognitive models called illocutionary scenarios (Panther & Thornburg 1998) or situational cognitive models (Ruiz de Mendoza 2005Mendoza , 2007. Cognitivist studies have also provided a significant amount of evidence supporting the existence of conventional speech acts or, in more precise terms, illocutionary constructions, defined as form-meaning pairings where the form is associated with specific forms of illocutionary meaning (Pérez 2001;Pérez & Ruiz de Mendoza 2002;Ruiz de Mendoza & Baicchi 2007). Such insights have shown that there is a greater degree of conventionalization in illocutionary production and interpretation than has been recognized in the research on pragmatics.…”

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“…This cultural convention is specified in the Cost-Benefit Cognitive Model(Ruiz de Mendoza & Baicchi 2007), which is a highlevel cognitive model that stipulates that speakers are culturally bound to help other people if it is within their range of abilities. This is the Cost-Benefit Cognitive Model as formulated by Ruiz de Mendoza andBaicchi (2007: 111-112): If it is manifest to A that A is responsible for a certain state of affairs to be to These cultural conventions are part of our high level knowledge about the world and because of this they are included in high-level models of interactional meaning.…”

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A Constructionist Approach to Illocution: The Case of Orders

Martínez

Mendoza

2013

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The present contribution studies the semantic base of orders at level 3 of the Lexical Constructional Model (Ruiz de Mendoza & Mairal 2008; Mairal & Ruiz de Mendoza 2009). The pragmatic structure of level 3 illocutionary constructions arises from the interplay between construal operations and general social conventions captured by the Cost-Benefit Cognitive Model (Ruiz de Mendoza & Baicchi 2007; Baicchi & Ruiz de Mendoza 2010). We examine the rationales for a number of conventionalized formulas carrying order values and explore their realizational potential. We argue that the realization of orders is based upon grammatical mechanisms that exhibit instantiation potential for relevant parts of the semantic base of ordering.

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Illocutionary constructions: Cognitive motivation and linguistic realization

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Las construcciones de fingimiento de inglés y urdu: el caso de las construcciones incoativas y medias

Las construcciones de fingimiento de inglés y urdu: el caso de las construcciones incoativas y medias

Requests as macro-speech act motivators in Qur’anic dialogues

A Constructionist Approach to Illocution: The Case of Orders

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