| Description |
1 online resource (x, 444 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Applications of cognitive linguistics, 1861-4078 ; 9 |
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Applications of cognitive linguistics ; 9.
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| Contents |
pt. 1. Cognition and usage : defining grammar, rules, models and corpora: The relevance of cognitive grammar for language pedagogy / Ronald W. Langacker ; Some pedagogical implications of cognitive linguistics / John R. Taylor ; Cognitive linguistic theories of grammar and grammar teaching / Cristiano Broccias ; Corpora, cognition and pedagogical grammars : an account of convergences and divergences / Fanny Meunier -- pt. 2. Tools for conceptual teaching : contrastive and error analysis: Cross-linguistic analysis, second language teaching and cognitive semantics : the case of Spanish diminuitives and reflexive constructions / Francisco José Ruiz de Menoza Ibáñez ; Spanish middle syntax : a usage-based proposal for grammar teaching / Ricardo Maldonado ; What can language learners tell us about constructions? / Javier Valenzuela Manzanares and Ana María Rojo López ; Conceptual errors in second-language learning / Marcel Danesi -- pt. 3. Conceptual learning : construal of motion, temporal structure, and dynamic action: Motiono events in Danish and Spanish : a focus on form pedagogical approach / Teresa Cadierno ; Motion and location events in German, French and English : a typological, contrastive and pedagogical approach / Sabine De Knop and René Dirven ; Making progress simpler? : applying cognitive grammar to tense-aspect teaching in the German EFL classroom / Susanne Niemeier and Monika Reif ; Aspectual concepts across languages : some considerations for second language learning / Barbara Schmiedtová and Monique Flecken ; The use of passives and alternatives in English by Chinese speakers / Liang Chen and John W. Oller, Jr |
| Summary |
In the last 25 years foreign language teaching has been able to increase its efficiency through an orientation towards authentic language materials, pragmatic language functions and interactive learning methods. However, so far foreign language teaching has lacked a sufficiently strong theoretical framework to support the teaching of language in all its aspects. Arguably, such a linguistic theory has to be usage-based and cognition-oriented. Since cognitive linguistics - and especially cognitive grammar - is concerned with conceptual issues against the larger background of human cognition and |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cognitive grammar.
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Corpora (Linguistics)
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Language and languages -- Study and teaching.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Study & Teaching.
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Cognitive grammar
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Corpora (Linguistics)
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Language and languages -- Study and teaching
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Kognitive Linguistik
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Didaktische Grammatik
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Kognitive Grammatik
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Fremdsprachenunterricht
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| Genre/Form |
Festschriften
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Festschriften.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dirven, René.
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Knop, Sabine de.
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Rycker, Teun de.
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| LC no. |
2007052034 |
| ISBN |
9783110205381 |
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3110205386 |
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