A Cognitive Construal of the Concessive Conditional Construction “<i>Just</i> Because <i>X</i> Doesn’t <i>Mean Y</i>”: A Corpus-Based Study
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.
Authors
- Xueyu Sun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5013-8636)
- Jinyang Hu
- Songsong Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9643-7076)
Institutions
- Jinling Institute of Technology (CN)
- Hong Kong Metropolitan University (HK)
- Shanghai Maritime University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- SAGE Open
- Published
- 2024-10-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440241246851
- Primary Topic
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00