Imperative-Based Dialogic Constructions and Discourse Units

What is it about?

Utilising data from corpora such as the British National Corpus (BNC) and the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), the book provides an empirical analysis of selected imperative-based constructions. In particular, it examines their frequency, usage patterns, and contextual functions, highlighting their role in dialogic perspectivization. Cast in Construction Grammar terms, the book integrates insights from corpus-based and interactional analyses to show how the patterns in focus function beyond the sentence level, contributing to the structuring of discourse and the management of speaker-addressee interactions.

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Why is it important?

If one of the following is a research area for you, then this book will most likely be an interesting read: - Discourse Framing: constructions as tools for marking discourse boundaries, guiding the discourse flow, ultimately turning into discourse operators.​ - Dialogic Functions: what is dialogicity and how does it pair with perspectivisation and negotiation of different viewpoints? - The interrelationship between imperative and non-compositionality on the road to coding dialogicity