
Usage-Based Perspectives on Second Language Learning
ISBN-13: 9783110377323 Publisher: De Gruyter Publication date: 09/25/2015 Series: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] , #30 Pages: 386 Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d) Age Range: 18 Years Honorary editor: René Dirven The series Applications of Cognitive Linguistics (ACL) welcomes book proposals from any domain where the theoretical insights developed in Cognitive Linguistics (CL) have been (or could be) fruitfully applied. In the past thirty-five years, the CL movement has articulated a rich and satisfying view of language around a small number of foundational principles. The first one argues that language faculties do not constitute a separate module of cognition, but emerge as specialized uses of more general cognitive abilities. The second principle emphasises the symbolic function of language. The grammar of individual languages (including the lexicon, morphology, and syntax) can be exclusively described as a structured inventory of conventionalized symboli