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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I Discourse resources in meaning construction and language processing: Discourse management, speaker stance and perspective, cognitive constraints and participant roles
  • Personal and interpersonal gesture spaces: Functional contrasts in language and gesture
  • The role of compound pragmatic markers in the construction of Catalan oral narrative
  • Analyzing narrative informativeness in speech and writing
  • Usage-based and form-focused SLA: The implicit and explicit learning of constructions
  • Perspective shifts in ASL narratives: The problem of clause structure
  • Making dative a case for semantic analysis: Differences in use between native and non-native speakers of German
  • Personal pronouns, blending, and narrative viewpoint
  • Meaning construction in humorous discourse: Context and incongruities in conceptual blending
  • Mental spaces and mental verbs in early child English
  • Spanish gustar vs. English like: A cognitive analysis of the constructions and its implication for SLA
  • Part II Applying discourse and corpus perspectives to issues in Cognitive Linguistics
  • The development of verb-argument structure in child discourse: On the use of construction variation in peer play
  • Another look at French split intransitivity
  • BORING: It s anything but
  • It s like making a soup: Metaphors and similes in spoken news discourse
  • A discourse approach to metaphor: Explaining systematic metaphors for literacy processes in a school discourse community
  • Superschemas and the grammar of metaphorical mappings
  • Backmatter