Kiki Nikiforidou | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Constructional approaches to genre model genre knowledge in terms of genre-based constructions. Like all
constructions, these represent conventionalized pairings of meaning and form, of varying degrees of length and schematicity, whose
pragmatic specifications include their association with a particular socio-cultural context. In this state-of-the-art article I
review genre-related constructional work, discussing grammatical patterns that are licensed only in particular contexts, including
conversational genres, as well as expressions that qualify as constructions simply on the basis of socio-cultural currency. The
appropriateness of constructional analysis for the language of genre derives from the definitional incorporation of
discourse-pragmatic information in constructional descriptions and the possibility of relating genre-bound, idiosyncratic patterns
to the rest of the constructions in a language through relations of inheritance. I further highlight the compatibility of Frame
Semantics with the notion of genre and critically discuss the concept of conventionality as it applies to genre language.
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