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- Title
You want to be careful: Advice as the only emerging modal use of want to/wanna, or shifting frames?
- Authors
Verplaetse, Heidi
- Abstract
The current contribution considers the use of the emerging modal forms want to / wanna for the speech act of advice with reference to two cognitive frameworks, viz. force dynamics and frame semantics. It is held that a volitional semantic core is projected in terms of wanting as a force dynamic experience which extends to the addressee as a mental extrapolation. In frame semantic terms the resulting speech act generates a new frame and new participant roles, so that the category “Attempt_suasion” is proposed as an addition for the verb form want in FrameNet. The interprations in terms of both theoretical frameworks are further supported by the case of second person want to / wanna for advice with an added question tag, representing respectively a lifted barrier and a frame shift, and illustrating the added potential of the forms in terms of face, when compared to the modal should.
- Subjects
CONSTRUCTION grammar; COMPARATIVE semantics; VERBS; EXTRAPOLATION; POLYSEMY
- Publication
Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 2010, Vol 24, Issue 1, p36
- ISSN
0774-5141
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/bjl.24.02ver