Language in Use : Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives on Language and Language Learning
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1589010442
ISBN-13
9781589010444
Publisher
Georgetown University Press
Imprint
Georgetown University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 23rd, 2005
Print length
240 Pages
Weight
386 grams
Product Classification:
Language acquisitionLanguage teaching & learning material & coursework
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Brings together perspectives from cognitive linguistics, language acquisition, discourse analysis, and linguistic anthropology. This book examines language processing and first language learning and illuminates the insights that discourse and usage-based models provide in issues of second language learning.
The unifying theme is studying how language is used in context (unlike the generative Chomskian approach), in interactions between at least two people in order to achieve some purpose. This book explores thus explores how lanugage is shaped by the nature of human cognition and social-cultural activity. It brings together perspectives from cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis, and first and second language acquisition research. These fields traditionally have not cross-fertilized their ideas, although all are engaged in usage-based approaches, so linking all three is a creative idea. This volume contains selected contributions from the 2003 GURT. Some of the names are prominent (Adele Goldberg, Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, Susanne Niemeier, Ann Wennerstrom)
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