Cognitive Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, and Foreign Language Teaching / Edition 1

ISBN-13: 9783110173574 Publisher: De Gruyter Publication date: 02/23/2004 Series: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] , #18 Pages: 289 Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d) Age Range: 18 Years This collection of twelve papers demonstrates that the concepts developed within the Cognitive Linguistics movement afford an insightful perspective on several important areas of second language acquisition and pedagogy. In the first part of the book, three papers show how three Cognitive Linguistics constructs provide a useful theoretical frame within which second language acquisition data can be analyzed. First, Talmy's typology of motion events is argued to constitute the base relative to which acquisition discrepancies in motion events are most valuably investigated. Secondly, the notion of "construction" is invoked in order to account for systematic differences between the native and non-native speakers' use of the English verb get. Finally, frequency and similarity effects ar