Applied Cognitive Linguistics: II: Language Pedagogy (De Gruyter, 2001)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Biographical note: Martin Pütz is Professor at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. Susanne Niemeier is Assistant Professor at Bremen University, Germany. René Dirven is Professor at Duisburg University, Germany
Main description: As a usage-based language theory, cognitive linguistics is predestined to have an impact on applied research in such areas as language in society, ideology, language acquisition, language pedagogy. The present volumes are a first systematic attempt to carve out pathways from the links between language and cognition to the fields of language acquisition and language pedagogy and to deal with them in one coherent framework: applied cognitive linguistics