Abstract Construction grammar (CxG) initially arose as a usage-based alternative to nativist theoretical accounts of language, and remains to this day strongly associated with cognitive linguistic theory and research. In this paper, however, I argue that CxG can be seen as offering an equally viable general framework for socially-oriented linguists whose work focuses on the corpus-based analysis of discourses (CBADs). The paper begins with brief reviews of CxG and CBADs as distinctive research traditions, before going on to identify synergies (both potential and actual) between them. I then offer a more detailed case study example, focusing on a usage-based analysis of a newly identified construction, the WAY IN WHICH construction, as it occurs in corpora representing six different academic discourses. The paper concludes by rebutting some anticipated objections to the approach advocated here, and by proposing a new conceptual model for constructionist approaches to CBADs.

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建构语法与基于语料库的语篇分析

摘要 构式语法 (CxG) 最初是作为一种基于用法的替代语言本土主义理论解释而出现的，直到今天仍然与认知语言理论和研究密切相关。然而，在本文中，我认为 CxG 可以被视为为面向社会的语言学家提供了一个同样可行的通用框架，他们的工作重点是基于语料库的话语分析 (CBAD)。本文首先简要回顾了 CxG 和 CBAD 作为独特的研究传统，然后确定它们之间的协同作用（潜在的和实际的）。然后，我提供了一个更详细的案例研究示例，重点是对新确定的结构的基于使用的分析，WAY IN WHICH 结构，因为它出现在代表六种不同学术话语的语料库中。