Andrea E. (Hrsg.) Tyler

Language in Use

Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives on Language and Language Learning

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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 20… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Takada, Mari (Hrsg.) / Kim, Yiyoung (Hrsg.) / Marinova, Diana (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-58901-044-4
EAN: 9781589010444
Produktnummer: 2763756
Verlag: Georgetown University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Seitenangabe: 240 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.0 cm 386 g
Gewicht: 386
Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)

Über 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.