Cover image for Fostering Language Teaching Efficiency through Cognitive Linguistics.
Fostering Language Teaching Efficiency through Cognitive Linguistics.
Title:
Fostering Language Teaching Efficiency through Cognitive Linguistics.
Author:
De Knop, Sabine.
ISBN:
9783110245837
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
1 online resource (404 pages)
Series:
Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] ; v.17

Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL]
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Fostering language teaching efficiency through cognitive linguistics: Introduction -- Part I - The importance of usage-based language acquisition, but why it may not suffice in contexts of second language learning -- Language in the mind -- Phrasal verbs in EFL course books -- Basic-level salience in second language vocabulary acquisition -- Does 'chunking' foster chunk-uptake? -- Part II - How Cognitive Linguistics can inform decisions about what to teach -- Having many meanings: A corpus study of Spanish EFL writers' construals with have -- Seven events in three languages: Culture-specific conceptualizations and their implications for FLT -- Canonicity and variation in idiomatic expressions: Evidence from business press headlines -- The use of metaphor and metonymy in academic and professional discourse and their challenges for learners and teachers of English -- Argument constructions and language processing: Evidence from a priming Experiment and pedagogical implications -- Choosing motivated chunks for teaching -- Part III - How Cognitive Lingusics can inform decisions about how to teach -- Fostering the acquisition of English prepositions by Japanese learners with networks and prototypes -- A prototype approach to auxiliary selection in the Italian passato prossimo -- Obstacles to CM-guided L2 idiom interpretation -- Corpus-informed integration of metaphor in materials for the business English classroom -- Improving word learn-ability with lexical decomposition strategies -- Cognitive theory as a tool for teaching pronunciation -- Backmatter.
Abstract:
Honorary editor: René Dirven The series Applications of Cognitive Linguistics (ACL) welcomes book proposals from any domain where the theoretical insights developed in Cognitive Linguistics (CL) have been (or could be) fruitfully applied. In the past thirty-five years, the CL movement has articulated a rich and satisfying view of language around a small number of foundational principles. The first one argues that language faculties do not constitute a separate module of cognition, but emerge as specialized uses of more general cognitive abilities. The second principle emphasises the symbolic function of language. The grammar of individual languages (including the lexicon, morphology, and syntax) can be exclusively described as a structured inventory of conventionalized symbolic units. The third principle states that meaning is equated with conceptualization. It is subjective, anthropomorphic, and crucially incorporates humans' experience with their bodies and the world around them. Finally, CL's Usage-Based conception anchors the meaning of linguistic expressions in the rich soil of their social usage. Consequently, usage-related issues such as frequency and entrenchment contribute to their semantic import. Taken together, these principles provide researchers in different academic fields with a powerful theoretical framework for the investigation of linguistic issues in the specific context of their particular disciplines. The primary focus of ACL is to serve as a high level forum for the result of these investigations.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
Electronic Access:
Click to View
Holds: Copies: