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Constructing Life

其他書名	The Resultative Construction and Social Cognition in Moral Argumentation
出版	Case Western Reserve University, 2018
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=DmmMwgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Moral communication by nature involves individuals of diverse viewpoints. The underlying viewpoint of a speaker may be readily visible in grammatical constructions, particularly the resultative construction. Roe v Wade being a significant and controversial landmark case in American legal history, the case was selected for examination of construction grammar in moral argumentation. The resultative construction was found to reveal an underlying default state of being, or presupposition, with regard to the resulting state of the object in question. This state is achieved through the implied state prior to the resultative construction's transformative usage. Roe v Wade possesses several resultative constructions describing significant transformative events in the legal sense, outlining when abortion was made a crime and when statutes were declared void. The transformative nature of the resultative construction creates a significant impact in legal discourse, which this thesis seeks to uncover and outline fully.