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Kochańska, Agata. 2018. The hurting and healing power of words (and grammatical constructions). A cognitive grammar study of the interactive and interpersonal effects of a directive construction in Polish. Journal of Pragmatics 134 : 1–14.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

This paper assays direct implicit directive utterances from Polish. It examines the relation between their grammatical make-up and pragmatic effects. The same construction generates distinct effects in distinct contexts. Distinct constructions generate distinct effects in the same context. The device for interpreting the planned pragmatic meanings is advanced.