Publications

Publication details [#65729]

Paradis, Carita and Nele Põldvere. 2019. Motivations and mechanisms for the development of the reactive what-x construction in spoken dialogue. Journal of Pragmatics 143 : 65–84.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cognitive semantics | inference | language change | metonymy | spoken language

Language as a subject

English, British

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper examines the evolution of the reactive what-x construction in English conversation. The London-Lund Corpora enable the inquiry of language change over the past half a century. Spoken language change is an intricate interaction of communicative and cognitive processes.