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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 conc

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Author

MICHAEL ACHARD AND SUSANNE NIEMEIER,MOUTON DE GRUYTER

Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9783110199857

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Linguistics, Language Learning, Literary Fiction