If that’s what she said, then that’s what she said: a usage-based, constructional analysis of pleonastic conditionals in English

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Abstract This paper investigates so-called pleonastic conditionals (PCs) in Present Day English, e.g. If you have to, to or When duty calls, calls. PCs are rhetorical statements which the antecedent and consequent formally semantically identical. The construction is characterized by stylistic reduplication semantic redundancy. It exactly this tautological nature has a considerable effect on discourse-pragmatic functions of construction. analyzes construction’s frequency, form looking at data from three BYU corpora: Movie Corpus (Davies, 2019), TV American Soap Operas 2011). 2151 examples if - when -PCs analyzed qualitatively quantitatively. argued that functionally too different be classified as default strict sense simply because they do not express condition inference. constructions used acceptance, indifference certainty proposition. On top that, also code prototypicality function completely overlooked literature so far. A Logistic Regression Model fitted predict choice connector . statistical analysis confirms two types constructional profiles. With regards theoretical modeling, usage-based, cognitive, grammar point view sketches constructions’ form-meaning parings well their horizontal vertical connections constructicon.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Corpus pragmatics

سال: 2023

ISSN: ['2509-9515', '2509-9507']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41701-023-00148-9