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Language in the Context Of Use : Discourse and Cognitive Approaches to Language.

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 perspect...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tyler, Andrea
Otros Autores: Kim, Yiyoung, Takada, Mari
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2008.
Colección:Cognitive Linguistics Research, v. 37.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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. While sharing fundamental assumptions about language, the particulars of the ar.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (372 pages)
ISBN:9783110199123
3110199122
1282194682
9781282194687