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Cognitive Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, and Foreign Language Teaching

Cognitive Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, and Foreign Language Teaching

Hardcover

Series: Studies on Language Acquisition [Sola], Book 18

Linguistics

ISBN10: 3110173573
ISBN13: 9783110173574
Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
Published: Feb 23 2004
Pages: 289
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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