The Usage-based Study of Language Learning and Multilingualism (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1626163243 ISBN 13: 9781626163249

Publisher: Georgetown University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Usage-based linguistics, which is currently very popular, bases its understanding of language on two key points: Languages are cognitive-social constructs (i.e., learned vs genetically endowed), and, in order for communication and meaning to happen, speakers must find a way to meet/understand each other, overcoming various differences (lexicon, social, register, etc.) to arrive there. In this book, high-level contributors combine research from various usage-based perspectives to explore these questions: How do proficient speakers accomplish 'mental contact' or communication through the available semiotic linguistic resources they share with other members of their discourse community? How do young children learn to accomplish this? And how do speakers of multiple languages learn to accomplish this across languages?

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About the Author

Lourdes Ortega is a professor of linguistics at Georgetown Univeristy. She is the author of Understanding Second Language Acquisition and coauthor of Technology-Mediated TBLT: Researching Technology and Tasks. Andrea Tyler is a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University. She is a coauthor of Language in Use: Cognitive and Discourse Perspectives on Language and Language Learning.Hae In Park is a doctoral student in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University. Marika Uno is a doctoral student in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1626163243
• ISBN 13: 9781626163249
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360
• Editor: Ortega Lourdes, Tyler Andrea E., Park Hae In, Uno Mariko