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Author Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (2004)

Title Language in use : cognitive and discourse perspectives on language and language learning / Andrea Tyler ... [and others], editors
Published Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description xiv, 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series Georgetown university round table on languages and linguistics series
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics. Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics.
Georgetown University round table on languages and linguistics series (2004)
Contents Introduction / Andrea Tyler -- Part I: Language Processing and First Language Learning -- 1. Support from Language Processing for a Constructional Approach to Grammar / Adele E. Goldberg and Giulia M. L. Bencini -- 2. Homonyms and Functional Mappings in Language Acquisition / Devin Casenhiser -- 3. Little Persuaders: Japanese Children's Use of Datte (but-because) and Their Developing Theories of Mind / Tomoko Matsui, Peter McCagg, and Taeko Yamamoto -- 4. "Because" as a Maker of Collaborative Stance in Preschool Children's Peer Interactions / Amy Kyratzis -- Part II: Issues in Second Language Learning -- 5. Contextualizing Interlanguage Pragmatics / Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig -- 6. Learning the Discourse of Friendship / Catherine Evans Davies -- 7. Applied Cognitive Linguistics and Newer Trends in Foreign Language Teaching Methodology / Susanne Niemeier -- 8. Language Play and Language Learning: Creating Zones of Proximal Development in a Third Grade Multilingual Classroom / Ana Christina Da Silva Iddings and Steven G. McCafferty -- 9. Cognates, Cognition and Writing: An Investigation of the Use of Cognates by University Second-Language Learners / Robin Cameron Scarcella and Cheryl Boyd Zimmerman --
Part III: Discourse Resources and Meaning Construction -- 10. Intonation, Mental Representation, and Mutual Knowledge / Ann Wennerstrom -- 11. Linguistic Variation in the Lexical Episodes of University Classroom Talk / Eniko Csomay -- 12. The Unofficial Business of Repair Initiation: Vehicles for Affiliation and Disaffiliation / Hansun Zhang Waring -- 13. Pragmatic Inferencing in Grammaticalization: A Case Study of Directional Verbs in Thai / Kingkarn Thepkanjana and Satoshi Uehara -- Part IV: Language and Identity -- 14. "Trying on" the Identity of "Big Sister": Hypothetical Narratives in Parent-Child Discourse / Cynthia Gordon -- 15. The Discourse of Local Identity in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina / Aida Premilovac -- 16. Immigration Geographies, Multilingual Immigrants, and the Transmission of Minority Languages: Evidence from the Igbo Brain Drain / Rachel R. Reynolds
Summary "The contributions in this volume place emphasis on the analysis of actual discourse and the insights that analyses of such data bring to language learning as well as how language shapes and reflects social identity - making it an invaluable addition to the library of anyone interested in cutting-edge linguistics."--BOOK JACKET
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
In Georgetown University round table on languages and linguistics series no:2003
Subject Language acquisition -- Congresses.
Cognitive grammar -- Congresses.
Discourse analysis -- Congresses.
Language acquisition.
Cognitive grammar.
Discourse analysis.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Tyler, Andrea.
LC no. 2004023166
ISBN 1589010442 paperback alkaline paper