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Informationen zum 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. Klappentext 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 2003 GURT. Some of the names are prominent (Adele Goldberg! Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig! Susanne Niemeier! Ann Wennerstrom) Zusammenfassung Brings together perspectives from cognitive linguistics! language acquisition! discourse analysis! and linguistic anthropology. This book examines language processing and first language learning and illuminates the insights that discourse and usage-based models provide in issues of second language learning. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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. BenciniPrinceton University and New York University 2. Homonyms and Functional Mappings in Language Acquisition Devin CasenhiserPrinceton 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 KyratzisUniversity of California! Santa Barbara Part II: Issues in Second Language Learning 5. Contextualizing Interlanguage Pragmatics Kathleen Bardovi-HarligIndiana University 6. Learning the Discourse of Friendship Catherine Evans DaviesUniversity of Alabama 7. Applied Cognitive Linguistics and Newer Trends in Foreign Language Teaching Methodology Susanne NiemeierUniversity 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. McCaffertyVanderbilt 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 ZimmermanUniversity of California at Irvine and California State University! Fullerton Part III: Discourse Resources and Meaning Construction 10. Intonation! Mental Representation! and Mutual Knowledge Ann WennerstromUniversity of Washington 11. Linguistic Variation in the Lexical Episodes of University Classroom Talk Eniko CsomaySan Diego State University 12. The Unofficial Business of Repair Initiation: Vehicles for Affiliation and Disaffiliation Hansun Zhang WaringTeachers College! Columbia University 13. Pragmatic Inferencing in Grammaticalization: A Case Study of Directional Verbs in Thai Kingkarn Thepkanjana and Satoshi UeharaChulalongkorn University! Thailand and Tohoku University! Japan Part IV: Language and Identity 14. "Trying on" the Identity of "Big Sister": Hypothetical Narratives in Pa...
