目录 List of Activities List of Figures and Tables 1 Introduction The linguistics applied approach: generative linguistics and second language learning The applied linguistics of second language learning Language as a social semiotic The emergence of cognitive linguistics Ending the LA-AL divide The purpose of the book Part I Embodied Experience 2 The Problem of Linguistic Meaning Introduction The problem of meaning Language learning as category learning Conclusions 3 Conceptualisation, Embodiment and the Origins of Meaning Introduction Proprioception: how the body remains aware of its own position in space Not seeing but conceptualising Cognitive development and infant movement Aplasic phantoms Mirror neurons The nature of language: image schemas and embodied cognition Education and embodiment Language teaching and embodiment: language as rhythm and movement Language teaching and embodiment: mime, enactment and movement Language teaching and embodiment: rethinking TPR Conclusions 4 Gesture Introduction The importance of gesture in communication Gesture in education Gesture and teaching prepositions Gesture and English articles Conclusions Part II Conceptualisation 5 Language, Culture and Linguistic Relativity Introduction The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis Meaning and conceptualisation Linguistic relativity: how different is different? Experimental evidence for linguistic relativity To learn new meanings, do we have to conceptualise the world differently? Second language errors and linguistic relativity Errors that use first language forms and meanings within the second language Errors that over-generalise some acquired formal or semantic feature of the second language False friends The problem of separating meaning from conceptualisation Can one change a conceptualisation? Language, culture and conceptualisation in the classroom Language, culture and learning Different meanings for different languages Conclusions 6 Conceptualisation and Construal Introduction Construal operations Attention and salience Attention, salience and enactive SLA Metonymy: attention and salience Scope of attention Scalar adjustment Dynamic attention Judgment and comparison Category formation Category formation and language teaching Metaphor Metaphor and language teaching Metaphor analysis Metaphor and target language differentiation The explanatory power of metaphor and analogy Using metaphor to learn second language lexis and grammar Figure-ground conceptual operations, force dynamics and action chains Perspectives and situatedness Deixis Constitution/gestalt Geometry Conclusions Part III Meaning and Usage 7 Teaching Encyclopaedic Meaning Introduction Word networks: hyponymy and schematicity Word networks: meronymy Crossing category borders Knowledge types and encyclopaedic meaning Finding the frame Phonological sense relations Conclusions 8 Usage and Grammatical Meaning Introduction Constructions Type and token Usage Language learning as construction learning Recognising constructions Teaching constructions Teaching filled constructions: idioms Teaching partially filled constructions: lexis, meaning and conceptualisation Teaching partially filled constructions: bound morphemes,inflections and lexis Teaching partially filled constructions: bound morphemes Teaching partially filled constructions: lexis and morphemes Teaching partially filled constructions: lexis Teaching unfilled constructions Routines for more advanced students: lexis, meaning and conceptualisation Encountering constructions Finding useful forms Conclusions Part IV Conclusions 9 Towards a Cognitive Linguistics Syllabus Introduction Product and process Language teaching implications Re-embedding linguistic form in the imagery and movement from which it emerged Engage the learners in the explicit analysis of form and meaning A forum for usage Sequencing Bibliography Index
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