Abstract Abstract:The traditional syntax only focuses on the syntactic linear combination, with a negligence of parallel (with corresponding included) paradigmatic relations between neighboring sentences(especially dialogue pairs). Dialogic Syntax is intended to fill this gap, with the idea that the parallel structures can produce mapping and dialogic resonance, activating the affinities across the utterances, thus inferring the pragmatic implicature and communicative intention. The author of the present paper argues that Dialogic Syntax is of great theoretic significance: (1) extending syntax research from syntactic level to paradigmatic level; (2) enlarging the researching contents of Cognitive Construction Grammar; (3) enriching the Dialogue Theory by Bakhtin and intertextuality by Kristeva; (4) developing Gricean approach and offering a new road towards Neo-cognitive Pragmatics;(5) influencing research in linguistic acquisition and learning, language teaching etc.
Key words:Dialogic Syntax;Dialogic Resonance;Parallelism;Cognitive Syntactic Theory;Neo-cognitive Pragmatics
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