Applying cognitive linguistics to second language learning and teaching /
Littlemore, Jeannette.
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I see less of the surroundings. The story feels different': Construal and Second Language Learning -- More on Categories: Words, Morphemes, Parts of Speech, 'Grammar rules', Phonological Features and Intonation Patterns as Radial Categories -- More about Spinsters and their Cats: Encyclopaedic Knowledge and Second Language Learning -- 'Eyebrow heads' and 'yummy mummies': Metaphor and Second Language Learning -- 'You'll find Jane Austen in the basement' ... or will you? Metonymy and Second Language Learning -- What Have Bees, Macaque Monkeys and Humans got in Common? Embodied Cognition, Gesture and Second Language Learning -- 'Loud suits' and 'sharp cheese': Motivated language and Second Language Learning -- 'Brian sent Antarctica a walrus': Construction Grammars and Second Language Learning.
Second language acquisition
Cognitive grammar.
Language and languages