Resumen de Cognitive Linguistics and a Usage-Based Approach to the Study of Semantics and Pragmatics
Guillaume Desagulier, Philippe Monneret
This chapter discusses the origins of the usage-based methodology and justifies why semantics and pragmatics are considered two poles of the same continuum. It shows how the usage-based treatment of these two poles differs from traditional pragmatics. The chapter provides pending issues that result from the integration of semantics and pragmatics, with a focus on how each pole could be made compatible with the formalism of Cognitive Linguistics. It also discusses more recent works in Cognitive Linguistics and traditional pragmatics, emphasizing the increasingly irreconcilable research programs. Second-generation cognitive semantics substantiates introspection-driven hypotheses with solid quantitative foundations and an extensive use of corpus techniques. The Pragmatic Mapping Generalizations recognize the existence of strictly contextual and interactional phenomena. However, their formulation indicates that construction grammars pass as much pragmatic information as possible under the caudine forks of the syntax-semantics interface.
