Language in Use : Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives on Language and Language Learning

Andrea E. Tyler

ISBN 10: 1589010442 / ISBN 13: 9781589010444

Verlag: Georgetown University Press Mär 2005, 2005

Beschreibung

Neuware - The unifying theme is studying how language is used in context (unlike the generative Chomskian approach), in interactions between at least two people in order to achieve some purpose. This book explores thus explores how lanugage is shaped by the nature of human cognition and social-cultural activity. It brings together perspectives from cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis, and first and second language acquisition research. These fields traditionally have not cross-fertilized their ideas, although all are engaged in usage-based approaches, so linking all three is a creative idea. This volume contains selected contributions from the 2003 GURT. Some of the names are prominent (Adele Goldberg, Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, Susanne Niemeier, Ann Wennerstrom).

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781589010444

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Language in Use : Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives on Language and Language Learning
• Verlag: Georgetown University Press Mär 2005
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1589010442
• ISBN-13: 9781589010444
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe

Language in Use creatively brings together, for the first time, perspectives from cognitive linguistics, language acquisition, discourse analysis, and linguistic anthropology. The physical distance between nations and continents, and the boundaries between different theories and subfields within linguistics have made it difficult to recognize the possibilities of how research from each of these fields can challenge, inform, and enrich the others. This book aims to make those boundaries more transparent and encourages more collaborative research.

The unifying theme is studying how language is used in context and explores how language is shaped by the nature of human cognition and social-cultural activity. Language in Use examines language processing and first language learning and illuminates the insights that discourse and usage-based models provide in issues of second language learning. Using a diverse array of methodologies, it examines how speakers employ various discourse-level resources to structure interaction and create meaning. Finally, it addresses issues of language use and creation of social identity.

Unique in approach and wide-ranging in application, 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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Andrea E. Tyler is a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University. She is coauthor (with Vyvyan Evans) of The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning, and Cognition and Language and Space. Mari Takada is a PhD candidate in linguistics at Georgetown University. Yiyoung Kim is a PhD candidate in applied linguistics at Georgetown University. Diana Marinova is a graduate student in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University.