Belief and Doubt: Cognitive Research on Tag Questions

Author: Niu Baoyi
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: This book is guided by cognitive grammar and evidentiality theory, with the English tag question as the main research object. It attempts to explore the influence and role of the questioner's cognitive state in tag questions on their syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic functions from the perspective of cognitive pragmatics. This research demonstrates that universal cognitive patterns and characteristics can provide a relatively reasonable and comprehensive explanation for the intrinsic connections between the grammatical, semantic, and pragmatic functions of certain grammatical structures. The cognitive state of language users regarding relevant events can provide theoretical support for the construction and use of linguistic categories. The book consists of 8 chapters.
Chapter 1, Introduction.
Chapter 2, Literature Review.
Chapter 3, Features of Tag Questions.
Chapter 4, Analysis of the Speaker's Cognitive State in Tag Questions.
Chapter 5, Pragmaticization of the Cognitive State in Tag Questions.
Chapter 6, Grammaticalization of the Cognitive State in Tag Questions.
Chapter 7, Extension of the Evidentiality Theory Model.
Chapter 8, Conclusion.