Rethinking the Role of Invited Inferencing in Change from the Perspective of Interactional Texts

The hypothesis that “invited inferences” are factors in change and challenges to it are reviewed. In light of recent work on historical construction grammar and interactional discourse analysis, I suggest that at least three types of inferences play a role in interactional contexts: local inferences...

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Main Author: Traugott Elizabeth Closs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2018-05-01
Series:Open Linguistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2018-0002