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Language Learning, Discourse and Cognition: Studies in the tradition of Andrea Tyler
Edited by Lucy Pickering and Vyvyan Evans
[Human Cognitive Processing 64] 2018
► pp. v–vi

Table of contents

List of contributorsVII
AcknowledgementsIX
IntroductionDiscourse and cognitive perspectives on language learning1
Part I.Discourse perspectives
Chapter 1.Culture, gender, ethnicity, identity in discourse: Exploring cross-cultural communicative competence in American university contexts11
Chapter 2.Discourse management strategies revisited: Building on Tyler’s early insights regarding international teaching assistant comprehensibility37
Chapter 3.Senior confessions: Narratives of self-disclosure63
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 85
Chapter 5.The role of embodiment in the semantic analysis of phrasal verbs: A corpus-based study111
Chapter 6.Synesthetic metaphors of sound: An analysis of the semantics of English and Japanese adjectives131
Chapter 7.Conceptual vs. inter-lexical polysemy: An LCCM theory approach159
Part III.Applications to L2 teaching and learning
Chapter 8.Formulaicity and context in second language pragmatics193
Chapter 9. What is happened? Your amazon.com order has shipped: Overpassivization and unaccusativity as L2 construction learning213
Chapter 10.Effects of L2 exposure on the use of discourse devices in L2 storytelling249
Chapter 11.The use of hedging devices in L2 legal writing: A cognitive functional perspective275
AfterwordThe theoretical and applied foundations of Andrea Tyler’s approach to the study of language301
Author index311
Subject index311


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