Cognitive linguistic approaches to teaching vocabulary and phraseology
By: edited by Frank Boers, Seth Lindstromberg.
Contributors: Boers, Frank.; Lindstromberg, Seth, 1949-
Series: Applications to cognitive linguistics -- 6
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter; Walter de Gruyter Inc.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9783110196306
Subjects: Language and languages -- Study and teaching; Vocabulary -- Study and teaching; Phraseology -- Study and teaching
Description: "This book presents evidence that making language learners aware of the motivated nature of language can help them comprehend and remember many words and phrases."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: How cognitive linguistics can foster effective vocabulary teaching / Frank Boers and Seth Lindstromberg; title: Using conceptual metaphors and metonymies in vocabulary teaching / Márta Beréndi, Szilvia Csábi and Zoltán Kövecses; title: Conceptual metaphoric meaning clues in two idiom presentation methods / Sophia Skoufaki; title: How cognitive linguistic motivations influence the learning of phrasal verbs / Nora Condon; title: A discovery approach to figurative language learning with the use of corpora / Fiona MacArthur and Jeannette Littlemore; title: Variables in the mnemonic effectiveness of pictorial elucidation / Frank Boers ... [et al.]; title: Reasoning figuratively in early EFL / Ana María Piquer Píriz; title: Translating the senses / Rosario Caballero and Ernesto Suárez-Toste; title: What bilingual word associations can tell us / Marjolijn H. Verspoor; title: Factors which influence the process of collocation / Crayton Walker; title: The notion of boundedness/unboundedness in the foreign language classroom / Susanne Niemeier; title: Structural elaboration by the sound (and feel) of it / Frank Boers and Seth Lindstromberg; title: A quantitative comparison of the English and Spanish repertoires of figurative idioms / Frank Boers and Hélène Stengers; title: From empirical findings to pedagogical practice / Frank Boers and Seth Lindstromberg.