Too early to say: The English too ADJ to V construction and models of cross-cultural communications styles
A collostructional approach
Vladan Pavlović | University of Niš
This paper studies the English too ADJ to V construction. It starts with a (multiple) distinctive
collexeme analysis (as one of the subtypes of collostructional analysis) of the ADJ-V pairs appearing in the
given construction in three regional varieties of English (American, British and Indian English) based on the GloWbE corpus. This
analysis establishes the most distinctive and most strongly repelled ADJ-V pairs in the respective varieties.
These results are then interpreted from the perspective of three models of inter-cultural and cross-cultural communication styles.
The paper demonstrates that the most distinctive and the most repelled ADJ-V pairs do differ across the three
varieties and that this may reflect subtle differences in the underlying cultural conceptualizations. The paper also introduces
the notion of ‘(multiple) distinctive collexeme analysis of co-varying collexemes’, as an extension of the existing notion of the
given type of collostructional analysis.
Keywords: language-culture interrelation, construction grammar, collostructional analysis, communication styles
Published online: 14 October 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.19044.pav
https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.19044.pav
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