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Introduction to Cognitive Pragmatics
Klaus-Uwe Panther
[Cognitive Linguistics in Practice 4] 2022
► pp. 21–42

Chapter 2
Cognitive-pragmatic motivation of language structure and use

Article outline
  • 1.Introducing the problem
  • 2.Some remarks on the history of motivation
  • 3.Towards a cognitive linguistic view of motivation
    • 3.1Preliminaries: Types of signs
    • 3.2Defining motivation
    • 3.3Motivated, unmotivated, conventional, and non-conventional signs
    • 3.4Unmotivated conventional signs
    • 3.5Motivated conventional signs
    • 3.6Non-conventionally used motivated signs
  • 4.Semiotic types of motivation
    • 4.1 content > form
    • 4.2 content 1 > content 2
    • 4.3 form > content
    • 4.4 form 1 > form 2
  • 5.Language-independent factors of motivation
    • 5.1Sensory-perceptual
    • 5.2Cultural
    • 5.3Emotive
  • 6.Demotivation
  • 7.Conclusion