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"Including sample lesson plans and classroom-ready activities, this book shows how to use key cognitive linguistic concepts to analyze the Chinese language and to advance L2 Chinese teaching and learning. It is ideal for language instructors, as well as academic researchers and students in Chinese linguistics and language pedagogy"--
List of contents
Preface; 1. Cognitive linguistics and second language acquisition; 2. Construal in language; 3. Concepts and categorization; 4. Iconicity and image schemas; 5. Metaphor and metonymy; 6. Polysemy; 7. Embodied cognition and mental simulation; 8. Teaching Chinese modal verbs; 9. The future of cognitive linguistics in Chinese studies.
About the author
Shu-Ling Wu is an Associate Professor and Head of the Chinese Program at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. She is the author of Mastering Advanced Modern Chinese through the Classics (with Yuan, 2019).Lihong Huang is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Georgetown University. She is the co-editor of What is Applied Cognitive Linguistics?: Answers from Current SLA Research (with Tyler and Jan, 2018).Carl Polley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Linguistics, and Literature at Kapi'olani Community College, University of Hawai'i. He teaches Chinese language, literature, and linguistics and has published open textbooks for elementary Mandarin on LibreTexts.
Summary
Including sample lesson plans and classroom-ready activities, this book shows how to use key cognitive linguistic concepts to analyze the Chinese language and to advance L2 Chinese teaching and learning. It is ideal for language instructors, as well as academic researchers and students in Chinese linguistics and language pedagogy.
Foreword
An introduction to the key cognitive linguistics concepts that aid analysis of Chinese and inform L2 Chinese teaching and learning.
