Language in Use by Cynthia Gordon

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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.

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Language in Use by Cynthia Gordon

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.
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 cognitionPragmatics & Cognition
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.
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ISBN 13 9781589010444
ISBN 10 1589010442
Title Language in Use
Author Andrea E Tyler
Series Georgetown University Round Table On Languages And Linguistics Series
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Georgetown University Press
Year published 2005-03-23
Number of pages 240
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.