Language Learning, Discourse and Cognition

Studies in the tradition of Andrea Tyler

Editors

Lucy Pickering

| Texas A&M University-Commerce

Vyvyan Evans

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Language Learning, Discourse and Cognition: Studies in the tradition of Andrea Tyler comprises a collection of original empirically and theoretically motivated studies at the nexus of discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics and second language learning. The thematic relationships between these subfields and links between the studies are laid out in introductory and concluding chapters. This edited volume is intended for both researchers and graduate students in linguistics and second language learning and teaching.

[Human Cognitive Processing, 64] 2018. ix, 317 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.64

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii–viii
Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction. Discourse and cognitive perspectives on language learning Lucy Pickering and Vyvyan Evans	1–8
Part I. Discourse perspectives
Chapter 1. Culture, gender, ethnicity, identity in discourse: Exploring cross-cultural communicative competence in American university contexts Catherine Evans Davies	11–36
Chapter 2. Discourse management strategies revisited: Building on Tyler’s early insights regarding international teaching assistant comprehensibility Gordon Tapper, Grazyna Drzazga, Maria Mendoza and Jennifer C. Grill	37–62
Chapter 3. Senior confessions: Narratives of self-disclosure Diana Boxer	63–82
Part II. Cognitive perspectives
Chapter 4. The speech went on (and on) as Kerry dozed off (and off): A conceptual grammar approach to on and off* Susan Strauss, Heesun Chang and Jungwan Yoon	85–110
Chapter 5. The role of embodiment in the semantic analysis of phrasal verbs: A corpus-based study Narges Mahpeykar	111–130
Chapter 6. Synesthetic metaphors of sound: An analysis of the semantics of English and Japanese adjectives Mari Tsujita	131–158
Chapter 7. Conceptual vs. inter-lexical polysemy: An LCCM theory approach Vyvyan Evans	159–190
Part III. Applications to L2 teaching and learning
Chapter 8. Formulaicity and context in second language pragmatics Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig	193–211
Chapter 9. What is happened? Your amazon.com order has shipped : Overpassivization and unaccusativity as L2 construction learning Lourdes Ortega, Sang-Ki Lee and Munehiko Miyata	213–247
Chapter 10. Effects of L2 exposure on the use of discourse devices in L2 storytelling Yuko Nakahama	249–273
Chapter 11. The use of hedging devices in L2 legal writing: A cognitive functional perspective Natalia Dolgova Jacobsen	275–300
Afterword. The theoretical and applied foundations of Andrea Tyler’s approach to the study of language Salvatore Attardo and Lucy Pickering	301–310
Name index	311–314
Subject Index	315–317