36.2303, Books: Imperative-Based Dialogic Constructions and Discourse Units: Geka (2025)

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Date: 30-Jul-2025
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Imperative-Based Dialogic Constructions and Discourse Units: Geka (2025)


Title: Imperative-Based Dialogic Constructions and Discourse Units
Series Title: Constructional Approaches to Language
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/cal.39

Author(s): Vassiliki Geka

eBook ISBN:  9789027244918 Pages:  266 Price: Europe EURO 125.00
eBook ISBN:  9789027244918 Pages:  266 Price: U.K. £ 105.00
eBook ISBN:  9789027244918 Pages:  266 Price: U.S. $ 163.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027220004 Pages:  266 Price: Europe EURO 125.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027220004 Pages:  266 Price: Europe EURO 132.50
Hardback ISBN:  9789027220004 Pages:  266 Price: U.K. £ 105.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027220004 Pages:  266 Price: U.S. $ 163.00

Abstract:

This book weaves together constructions, imperatives, dialogicity, and
discourse units. How can that be? This is precisely the question it
sets out to answer by working at the crossroads of Construction
Grammar (CxG), Corpus Linguistics (CL), and Interactional Linguistics
(IL). Profiting from this cross-fertilising synergy, the book singles
out BELIEVE (YOU) ME, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THINK AGAIN and MIND YOU as
its objects of study, offers an empirical analysis of their properties
and situates them within an entrenched and far-reaching, yet
conveniently ‘camouflaged’, network of dialogic perspectivisation. In
so doing, the book provides novel insights into the mental state
verbal fillers of the constructions alongside their imperative-induced
non-compositionality and dialogicity which motivate their function as
discourse unit framing agents and, per extension, discourse operators.
The book thus makes a case for CxG’s ability to go beyond its
word<i>-</i>, or phrase-based ‘comfort zone’ and address phenomena at
a micro-, meso- and macro-discourse level with across-the-board
benefits.

Written In: English (eng)



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