Constructions, Templates and Pragmatics: Response to Cappelle

Abstract

This chapter addresses the main points of Bert Cappelle’s contribution “What’s pragmatics doing outside constructions?”. ‘Storage vs. ad hoc processing’ and ‘generalized conversational implicatures’ are among the issues addressed. The author compares the concepts of a constructional vs. a pragmatic template in terms of their respective descriptive and explanatory benefits.