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Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives
is an up-to-date survey of recent research in Cognitive Linguistics
and its applications by prominent researchers. The volume brings
together generally accessible syntheses and special studies of
Cognitive Linguistics strands in a sizable format and is thus an
asset not only to the Cognitive Linguistics community, but also to
neighbouring disciplines and linguists in general. The volume
covers a wide range of fields and combines wide accessibility with
a highly specific information value. Key features: An excellent
source for the study of Applied Cognitive Linguistics, one of the
most popular and fastest growing areas in Linguistics.
Authoritative and detailed survey articles by leading scholars in
the field. Accessible to a general audience, yet also characterized
by a highly specific information value.
This collection of twelve papers demonstrates that the concepts
developed within the Cognitive Linguistics movement afford an
insightful perspective on several important areas of second
language acquisition and pedagogy. In the first part of the book,
three papers show how three Cognitive Linguistics constructs
provide a useful theoretical frame within which second language
acquisition data can be analyzed. First, Talmy's typology of motion
events is argued to constitute the base relative to which
acquisition discrepancies in motion events are most valuably
investigated. Secondly, the notion of "construction" is invoked in
order to account for systematic differences between the native and
non-native speakers' use of the English verb get. Finally,
frequency and similarity effects are shown to play a crucial part
in the learning of prepositions in a second language. The second
part of the book shows that the key concepts commonly invoked in
Cognitive Linguistics analyses allow language teachers to
insightfully structure the presentation of problematic material in
the foreign language classroom. These concepts include among others
polysemy, the figure/ground gestalt, the usage-based conception of
grammar, the radial organization of categories, metaphors, and
cultural scripts. The Cognitive Linguistics paradigm has already
shown its viability to analyze a wide array of linguistic
phenomena. This book establishes its relevance in the areas of
second language acquisition and language pedagogy. Its intended
public is composed of Cognitive Linguists, Second Language
Acquisition specialists, as well as foreign language pedagogy
researchers, instructors, and students.
When humans learn languages, are they also learning how to create
shared meaning? In The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and
Multilingualism, a cadre of international experts say yes and offer
cutting-edge research in usage-based linguistics to explore how
language acquisition, in particular multilingual language
acquisition, works. Each chapter presents an original study that
supports the view that language learning is initiated through local
and meaningful communication with others. Over an accumulated
history of such usage, people gradually create more abstract,
interactive schematic representations, or a mental grammar. This
process of acquiring language is the same for infants and adults
and across varied contexts, such as the family, the classroom, the
laboratory, a hospital, or a public encounter. Employing diverse
methodologies to study this process, the contributors here work
with target languages, including Cantonese, English, French, French
Sign Language, German, Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Spanish, and
Swedish, and offer a much-needed exploration of this growing area
of linguistic research.
"Language, Culture, and Mind" is a stimulating collection exploring
the ways that cognitive, social, and cultural categories are
revealed through language. Contributors use methods such as
psycholinguistic experiments and observations of natural discourse
to probe how such categories are organized, with grammatical and
semantic analyses--in modern cognitive frameworks--augmenting these
approaches. Some of the phenomena studied include the linguistic
expression of space and causality; aspect, classifiers, negation,
and complement constructions; and metaphor, metonymy, and
conceptual blending across different domains of human experience.
The result is a fresh perspective on the way language relates to
thought and culture.
"Language, Culture, and Mind" is a stimulating collection exploring
the ways that cognitive, social, and cultural categories are
revealed through language. Contributors use methods such as
psycholinguistic experiments and observations of natural discourse
to probe how such categories are organized, with grammatical and
semantic analyses--in modern cognitive frameworks--augmenting these
approaches. Some of the phenomena studied include the linguistic
expression of space and causality; aspect, classifiers, negation,
and complement constructions; and metaphor, metonymy, and
conceptual blending across different domains of human experience.
The result is a fresh perspective on the way language relates to
thought and culture.
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