Language in Use
 240 pp., 6 x 9 Paperback ISBN: 9781589010444 (1589010442) eBook ISBN: 9781589013568 E-Inspection Request E-Inspection March 2005 LC: 2004023166 Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics series EXPLORE THIS TITLE DescriptionTable of Contents Reviews Contributors |
Language in Use
Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives on Language and Language Learning
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. 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.
Reviews
"Reading this collection will be refreshing for all the scholars and students who are interested in language in context and how it relates to human cognition."—Pragmatics & Cognition Table of Contents Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Introduction Andrea Tyler Part I: Language Processing and First Language Learning 1. Support from Language Processing for a Constructional Approach to Grammar Adele E. Goldberg and Giulia M. L. Bencini Princeton University and New York University 2. Homonyms and Functional Mappings in Language Acquisition Devin Casenhiser Princeton University 3. Little Persuaders: Japanese Children's Use of Datte (but-because) and Their Developing Theories of Mind Tomoko Matsui, Peter McCagg, and Taeko Yamamoto International Christian University, Japan 4. "Because" as a Maker of Collaborative Stance in Preschool Children's Peer Interactions Amy Kyratzis University of California, Santa Barbara Part II: Issues in Second Language Learning 5. Contextualizing Interlanguage Pragmatics Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig Indiana University 6. Learning the Discourse of Friendship Catherine Evans Davies University of Alabama 7. Applied Cognitive Linguistics and Newer Trends in Foreign Language Teaching Methodology Susanne Niemeier University Koblenz-Landau, Germany 8. Language Play and Language Learning: Creating Zones of Proximal Development in a Third Grade Multilingual Classroom Ana Christina Da Silva Iddings and Steven G. McCafferty Vanderbilt University and University of Nevada at Las Vegas 9. Cognates, Cognition and Writing: An Investigation of the Use of Cognates by University Second-Language Learners Robin Cameron Scarcella and Cheryl Boyd Zimmerman University of California at Irvine and California State University, Fullerton Part III: Discourse Resources and Meaning Construction 10. Intonation, Mental Representation, and Mutual Knowledge Ann Wennerstrom University of Washington 11. Linguistic Variation in the Lexical Episodes of University Classroom Talk Eniko Csomay San Diego State University 12. The Unofficial Business of Repair Initiation: Vehicles for Affiliation and Disaffiliation Hansun Zhang Waring Teachers College, Columbia University 13. Pragmatic Inferencing in Grammaticalization: A Case Study of Directional Verbs in Thai Kingkarn Thepkanjana and Satoshi Uehara Chulalongkorn University, Thailand and Tohoku University, Japan Part IV: Language and Identity 14. "Trying on" the Identity of "Big Sister": Hypothetical Narratives in Parent-Child Discourse Cynthia Gordon Georgetown University 15. The Discourse of Local Identity in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina Aida Premilovac Georgetown University 16. Immigration Geographies, Multilingual Immigrants, and the Transmission of Minority Languages: Evidence from the Igbo Brain Drain Rachel R. Reynolds Drexel University Contributors Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig Giulia M. L. Bencini Devin Casenhiser Eniko Csomay Ana Christina Da Silva Iddings Catherine Evans Davies Adele E. Goldberg Cynthia Gordon Amy Kyratzis Tomoko Matsui Steven G. McCafferty Peter McCagg Susanne Niemeier Aida Premilovac Rachel Reynolds Robin Cameron Scarcella Kingkarn Thepkanjana Andrea E. Tyler Satoshi Uehara Hansun Zhang Waring Ann Wennerstrom Taeko Yamamoto Cheryl Boyd Zimmerman |
