Cognitive Linguistics and Language Teaching

Informationen zum Autor RANDAL HOLME is Associate Professor of English at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. His main research interest is in the applications of Cognitive Linguistics to language teaching and learning. His publications include the books, Mind, Metaphor and Language Teaching (2003) and Literacy: an Introduction (2004). Klappentext This book argues that Second language teaching has not been well served by recent approaches to the description of language content. The book explores how Cognitive Linguistics offers teachers a description of language that can translate into practical classroom activities. Zusammenfassung This book argues that Second language teaching has not been well served by recent approaches to the description of language content. The book explores how Cognitive Linguistics offers teachers a description of language that can translate into practical classroom activities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables List of Activities Introduction PART I: EMBODIED EXPERIENCE The Problem of Linguistic Meaning Conceptualisation, Embodiment, and the Origins of Meaning Gesture PART II: CONCEPTUALISATION Language, Culture and Linguistic Relativity Conceptualization and Construal PART III: MEANING AND USAGE Teaching Encyclopaedic Meaning Usage and Grammatical Meaning PART IV: CONCLUSIONS Towards a CL Syllabus References

Produktdetails

• Autoren: R Holme, R. Holme, Randal Holme, HOLME RANDAL
• Verlag: Palgrave UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 14.05.2009
• EAN: 9780230537392
• ISBN: 978-0-230-53739-2
• Seiten: 264
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft; B, Linguistics, Grammar, Sociolinguistics, Language and Literature, Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Lingusitics, Language: reference & general, Literary studies: general, Language Education, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Stylistics, Language teaching and learning, Language and education, Language teaching & learning, Language and languages—Study and teaching, Language Teaching, Philology, Cognitive grammar, Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive studies, Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Theoretical Linguistics / Grammar