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IDENTICAL CONSTITUENT COMPOUNDING: A CONCEPTUAL INTEGRATION-BASED MODEL

Benjamin, Brandon Lee
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1522462466118861

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2018, Master of Arts, Case Western Reserve University, Cognitive Linguistics.
The present thesis investigates the cognitive processes which underlie production and interpretation of Identical Constituent Compounds (ICCs), with a particular orientation toward Conceptual Integration Theory. This investigation makes use of this cognitive mechanism as a tool for explaining how the structure, conceptual semantics, and pragmatic constraints on the construction can be neatly modeled by conceptual blending. Using corpus examples from a variety of sources, it is argued that ICCs are used most frequently as a form of repair when the speaker anticipates that their message may not be construed as intended; the blending of an expression with an identical copy of itself disallows the formation of mappings with other constructs and thus favors the classic prototype interpretation of the expression discussed in the literature.
Vera Tobin (Advisor)
Fey Parrill (Committee Member)
Mark Turner (Committee Member)
54 p.
Communication; Language; Linguistics
Identical Constituent Compound; blending; Conceptual Integration Theory; prototype; contrastive focus; repair

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  • Benjamin, B. L. (2018). IDENTICAL CONSTITUENT COMPOUNDING: A CONCEPTUAL INTEGRATION-BASED MODEL [Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1522462466118861

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Benjamin, Brandon. IDENTICAL CONSTITUENT COMPOUNDING: A CONCEPTUAL INTEGRATION-BASED MODEL. 2018. Case Western Reserve University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1522462466118861.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Benjamin, Brandon. "IDENTICAL CONSTITUENT COMPOUNDING: A CONCEPTUAL INTEGRATION-BASED MODEL." Master's thesis, Case Western Reserve University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1522462466118861

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