Language in the Context of Use : : Discourse and Cognitive Approaches to Language /

Language in the Context of Use : : Discourse and Cognitive Approaches to Language / / ed. by Yiyoung Kim, Mari Takada, Andrea Tyler.

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The volume explores key convergences between cognitive and discourse approaches to language and language learning, both first and second. The emphasis is on the role of language as it is used in everyday interaction and as it reflects everyday cognition. The contributors share a usage-based perspect...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Achard, Michel,
Berman, Ruth A.,
Budwig, Nancy,
Cadierno, Teresa,
Cameron, Lynne,
Dancygier, Barbara,
Ellis, Nick C.,
Fujii, Akiko,
González, Montserrat,
Grady, Joseph,
Israel, Michael,
Janzen, Terry,
Liamkina, Olga,
Marras, Valentina,
Moder, Carol Lynn,
Ravid, Dorit,
Shaffer, Barbara,
Sizemore, Marisa,
Smith, Melissa A.,
Sweetser, Eve,
HerausgeberIn:
Kim, Yiyoung,
Takada, Mari,
Tyler, Andrea,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] , 37
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Physical Description:1 online resource (365 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I Discourse resources in meaning construction
  • and language processing: Discourse management, speaker stance and
  • perspective, cognitive constraints and participant roles
  • Personal and interpersonal gesture spaces:
  • Functional contrasts in language and gesture
  • The role of compound pragmatic markers in the
  • construction of Catalan oral narrative
  • Analyzing narrative informativeness in speech and
  • writing
  • Usage-based and form-focused SLA: The implicit and
  • explicit learning of constructions
  • Perspective shifts in ASL narratives: The problem
  • of clause structure
  • Making dative a case for semantic analysis:
  • Differences in use between native and non-native speakers of
  • German
  • Personal pronouns, blending, and narrative
  • viewpoint
  • Meaning construction in humorous discourse: Context
  • and incongruities in conceptual blending
  • Mental spaces and mental verbs in early child
  • English
  • Spanish gustar vs. English like: A cognitive
  • analysis of the constructions and its implication for SLA
  • Part II Applying discourse and corpus perspectives
  • to issues in Cognitive Linguistics
  • The development of verb-argument structure in child
  • discourse: On the use of construction variation in peer play
  • Another look at French split intransitivity
  • BORING: It s anything but
  • It s like making a soup: Metaphors and similes in
  • spoken news discourse
  • A discourse approach to metaphor: Explaining
  • systematic metaphors for literacy processes in a school discourse
  • community
  • Superschemas and the grammar of metaphorical
  • mappings
  • Backmatter

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