Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This volume, grounded on usage-based models of language, is an edited collection of empirical research examining how cognitive linguistics can advance Japanese pedagogy. Each chapter presents an acquisition or classroom study which focuses on challenging features and leads instructors and researchers into new realms of analysis by showing innovative views and practices resulting in better understanding and improved L2 learning of Japanese.

Japanese language --- Study and teaching --- Foreign speakers. --- Cognitive Linguistics. --- Corpus Study. --- Japanese Pedagogy. --- Polysemous Particles.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

By integrating cognitive linguistics and sociocultural theories, this groundbreaking book presents empirical studies on selected grammatical and semantic aspects that are challenging for second/foreign language learners. Through in-depth studies exploring eight different languages, this book offers insights generated through the synergy between cognitive linguistics and sociocultural theories that can be readily incorporated into teaching.

Language and languages --- Second language acquisition --- Cognitive grammar --- Intercultural communciation --- Sociolinguistics --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Cognitive linguistics --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Psycholinguistics --- Second language learning --- Language acquisition --- Foreign language study --- Language and education --- Language schools --- Study and teaching. --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Second language acquisition Study and teaching --- Study and teaching --- Language and languages Study and teaching --- Applied Cognitive Linguistics. --- Empirical Studies. --- Second/Foreign Language Teaching. --- Sociocultual Theory.