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<html> <head><meta http-equiv=content-type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"></head> <body> <P>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 perspective on language - whether they are examining grammar or metaphor or interactional dynamics - which situates language as part of a broader range of systems which underlie the organization of social life and human thought.</P> <P>While sharing fundamental assumptions about language, the particulars of the areas of inquiry and emphases of those engaged in discourse analysis versus cognitive linguistics are diverse enough that, historically, many have tended to remain unaware of the interrelations among these approaches. Thus, researchers have also largely overlooked the possibilities of how work from each perspective can challenge, inform, and enrich the other.</P> <P>The papers in the volume make a unique contribution by more consciously searching for connections between the two broad appro

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Author
Tyler, Andrea; Kim, Yiyoung; Takada, Mari
Publisher
De Gruyter De Gruyter Mouton
Published
2008
Language
EN
ISBN
9783110196191
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Language Learning, Literary Fiction, Linguistics

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