Title: Language in use : cognitive and discourse perspectives on language and language learning /
Authors: Tyler, Andrea.
Publisher: Georgetown University Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Language acquisition.; Cognitive grammar.; Discourse analysis.; Discourse analysis.; Cognitieve grammatica.; Langage Acquisition.; Grammaire cognitive.; Analyse du discours.; Acquisition du langage; Acquisition d'une langue seconde; Grammaire cognitive; Analyse du discours; Langage; Discourse analysis Congresses.; Cognitive grammar Congresses.; Language acquisition Congresses.
Abstract: "This book explores how language is shaped by the nature of human cognition and social-cultural activity, by studying how language is used in context in interactions between at least two people in order to achieve some purpose. It brings together perspectives from cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis, and first and second language acquisition research"--Provided by the publisher.
Contents: Introduction / Andrea Tyler -- Support from language processing for a constructional approach to grammar / Adele E. Goldberg and Guilia M. L. Bencini -- Homonyms and functional mappings in language acquisition / Devin M. Casenhiser -- Little persuaders: japanese children's use of datte (but-because) and their developing theories of mind / Tomoko Matsui, Peter McCagg, and Taeko Yamamoto -- "Because" as a marker of collaborative stance in preschool children's peer interactions / Amy Kyratzis -- Contextualizing interlanguage pragmatics / Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig -- Learning the discourse of friendship / Catherine Evans Davies -- Applied cognitive linguistics and newer trends in foreign language teaching methodology / Susanne Niemeier -- Language play and language learning: creating zones of proximal development in a third-grade multilingual classroom / Ana Christina DaSilva Iddings and Steven G. McCafferty -- Cognates, cognition, and writing: an invetigation of the use of cognates by university second-language learners / Robin Cameron Scarcella and Cheryl Boyd Zimmerman -- Intonation, mental representation, and mutual knowledge / Ann Wennerstrom -- Linguistic variation in the lexical episodes of university classroom talk / Eniko Csomay -- The unofficial businesses of repair initiation: vehicles for affiliation and disaffiliation / Hansun Zhang Waring -- Pragmatic inferencing in grammaticalization: a case study of direcitonal verbs in thai / Kingkarn Thepkanjana and Satoshi Uehara -- "Trying on" the identity of "big sister": hypothetical narratives in parent-child discourse / Cynthia Gordon -- The discourse of local identity in postwar Bosnia-herzegovina / Aida Premilovac -- Immigration geographies, multilingual immigrants, and the transmission of minority languages: evidence from the Igbo brain drain / Rachel R. Reynolds