A Cognitive Construal of the Concessive Conditional Construction “Just Because X Doesn’t Mean Yâ€: A Corpus-Based Study

Songsong Zhang, Jinyang Hu and Xueyu Sun

SAGE Open, 2024, vol. 14, issue 4, 21582440241246851

Abstract: This study takes the English concessive conditional construction “ Just Because X Doesn’t Mean Y †(JBX-DMY) as its object, extracts instances from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), applies Simple Collostructional Analysis to the representative collexemes, and investigates the experiential and conceptual characteristics of this construction from the perspective of cognitive construal in order to explain the source and mechanism of polysemy. Dividing JBX-DMY into two parts, this study analyzes ways of construal, vantage points and viewing arrangement under the dimension of cognitive construal.

Keywords: ways of construal; vantage points; viewing arrangement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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