Does grammatical aspect convey pragmatic meaning?: The case of believe in the progressive aspect
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ap.22011.gra" target="_blank" >10.1075/ap.22011.gra</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Does grammatical aspect convey pragmatic meaning?: The case of believe in the progressive aspect
Original language description
The study investigates the stance marker believe in the progressive aspect, challenging the view established in the ESL community that state verbs are used exclusively in the simple aspect and an overall neglect of the pragmatic meaning associated with different structural forms. The study shows that a corpus-based analysis of naturally occurring data proves the opposite: While the simple aspect remains the prevalent use, believe in progressive displays important pragmatic functions, indicative of immediacy, expression of agency, and intensity. The paper discusses the identified pragmatic functions and relates them to the communicative goals of the registers they are attested in, such as blogs and news reports. News broadcasts, for example, feature interview sources offering their subjective take; in opinion blogs, writers share experience offering evaluation. Speaker agency is thus a crucial component of influencing public opinion or the construction of the online persona. The study has implications for teaching, suggesting that students need exposure to and a thorough understanding of this authentic use. © 2025 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)
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Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Applied Pragmatics
ISSN
25891103
e-ISSN
2589109X
Volume of the periodical
7
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
27
Pages from-to
29 - 55
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105013030758