Abstract
The combination of construction grammar and dialogic syntax in cognitive linguistics facilitates a novel cognitive-functional approach to investigating dialogues, which highlights the engagement of interlocutors and aims to examine the cognitive motivation and mechanism underlying the resonances and temporary constructions in utterance pairs. Nevertheless, studies on dialogic construction grammar are scarce and unsystematic, some of which concern theoretical explanation instead of practical application with sufficient data. As a result, it is demanding to testify its explanatory force in diverse types of utterance pairs in natural language. Basically grounded on the monograph Dialogic Construction Grammar: A Theoretical Framework and Its Application, this review sorts out the development of dialogic construction grammar, and manages to presents how the Event domain-based Schema-Instance model is constructed to explore the cognitive mechanism of common types of utterance pairs, particulary, wh-question and answer pairs, namely wh-dialogues, with the intention to explain how dialogic construction grammar theory is applied to investigate the cognitive-functional properties of common utterance pairs in linguistic communication, at the same time pointing out the future work that might be done in the studies on construction grammar.
Highlights
The conventional aspects of dialogue analysis mainly center around forms and meanings of single utterances, as well as the influence of culture and discourse function on utterance meanings (Zeng, 2017)
Li encouraged to scrutinize dialogical utterances from distinct perspectives, one of which is from the perspective of the integration of construction grammar and dialogic syntax, or dialogic construction grammar
The ultimate intention of dialogic construction grammar studies is to figure out how interpersonal interaction contributes to the reasoning of utterance meaning, how cognitive motivation fosters the interaction between speakers and the objective world, and how interlocutors perceive structural parallelism in dialogue (Zeng, 2019b)
Summary
Li encouraged to scrutinize dialogical utterances from distinct perspectives, one of which is from the perspective of the integration of construction grammar and dialogic syntax, or dialogic construction grammar. According to Brône and Zima (2014), dialogic constructions are ad hoc constructions that are different from the form-meaning pairings traditionally defined in construction grammar in that the later are acknowledged as conventionalized structures, whereas the former cover temporarily routinized paired constructions conceptually shared between interlocutors in consecutive turntakings. In this sense, the ultimate intention of dialogic construction grammar studies is to figure out how interpersonal interaction contributes to the reasoning of utterance meaning, how cognitive motivation fosters the interaction between speakers and the objective world, and how interlocutors perceive structural parallelism in dialogue (Zeng, 2019b). As a new theory, dialogic construction grammar has not yet been fully probed into in different languages, and the motivation of this review is to introduce one of the very recent research findings in this field
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