Tyler / Kim / Takada Language in the Context of Use

Discourse and Cognitive Approaches to Language
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-3-11-019912-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 37, 371 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]ISSN

The volume explores key convergences between cognitive and discourse approaches to language and language learning, both first and second. The emphasis is on the role of language as it is used in everyday interaction and as it reflects everyday cognition. The contributors share a usage-based perspective on language - whether they are examining grammar or metaphor or interactional dynamics - which situates language as part of a broader range of systems which underlie the organization of social life and human thought.While sharing fundamental assumptions about language, the particulars of the areas of inquiry and emphases of those engaged in discourse analysis versus cognitive linguistics are diverse enough that, historically, many have tended to remain unaware of the interrelations among these approaches. Thus, researchers have also largely overlooked the possibilities of how work from each perspective can challenge, inform, and enrich the other.The papers in the volume make a unique contribution by more consciously searching for connections between the two broad approaches. The results are a set of dynamic, thought-provoking analyses that add considerably to our understanding of language and language learning. The papers represent a rich range of frameworks within a usage-based approach to language. Cognitive Grammar, Mental Space and Blending Theory, Construction Grammar, ethnomethodology, and interactional sociolinguistics are just some of the frameworks used by the researchers in this volume. The particular subjects of inquiry are also quite varied and include first and second language learning, signed language, syntactic phenomena, interactional regulation and dynamics, discourse markers, metaphor theory, polysemy, language processing and humor.The volume is of interests to researchers in cognitive linguistics, discourse and conversational analysis, and first and second language learning, as well as signed languages.

Zielgruppe

Cognitive and Applied Linguists; Researchers in Discourse and Con

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tyler, Andrea

Kim, Yiyoung

Takada, Mari

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Contents;5
3;Introduction;7
4;Personal and interpersonal gesture spaces: Functional contrasts in language and gesture;31
5;The role of compound pragmatic markers in the construction of Catalan oral narrative;59
6;Analyzing narrative informativeness in speech and writing;77
7;Usage-based and form-focused SLA: The implicit and explicit learning of constructions;99
8;Perspective shifts in ASL narratives: The problem of clause structure;127
9;Making dative a case for semantic analysis: Differences in use between native and non-native speakers of German;151
10;Personal pronouns, blending, and narrative viewpoint;173
11;Meaning construction in humorous discourse: Context and incongruities in conceptual blending;189
12;Mental spaces and mental verbs in early child English;205
13;Spanish gustar vs. English like: A cognitive analysis of the constructions and its implication for SLA;239
14;The development of verb-argument structure in child discourse: On the use of construction variation in peer play;261
15;Another look at French split intransitivity;275
16;BORING: It’s anything but;291
17;It’s like making a soup: Metaphors and similes in spoken news discourse;307
18;A discourse approach to metaphor: Explaining systematic metaphors for literacy processes in a school discourse community;327
19;‘Superschemas’ and the grammar of metaphorical mappings;345
20;Backmatter;367

Über Autor(innen)

Andrea Tyler, Georgetown University Washington, USA; Yiyoung Kim, Georgetown University, USA; Mari Takada, International Christian University Tokyo, Japan.