Motion and location events in German, French and English: A typological, contrastive and pedagogical approach
(2008) Cognitive Approaches to Pedagogical Grammar – A Volume in Honour of René Dirven — ISBN: [978-3-11-019595-8], 295-324, published
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- A pedagogical grammar – in the cognitive sense – considers language as a component of overall cognition and attempts to apply this insight to the processes of foreign language learning, especially in the preparation of instruction materials and their exploitation in the classroom. The starting point for any type of pedagogical grammar is a fairly exhaustive repertory of all the patterns or constructions of a language, either previously recognized or else recently dis-covered or still to be discovered. For the stock-taking of different patterns, the role of language typology and contrastive linguistics is primordial. This paper first concentrates on typological distinctions concerning the manner and path of motion between Germanic and Romance languages in the conceptual fields of motion and location. The study further covers the extensions of the prototypical concept of spatial motion into reduced motion of instrumental body parts, fictive motion and metaphorical motion. The examples are meant to concretize the challenges for the learning tasks of foreign language learners in their mastering of the variation in the conceptualization of motion and location in various types of languages, especially those in German as a target language for speakers of French or English.
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De Knop, S., & Dirven, R. (2008). Motion and location events in German, French and English: A typological, contrastive and pedagogical approach. In Sabine De Knop; Teun De Rycker (ed.), Cognitive Approaches to Pedagogical Grammar – A Volume in Honour of René Dirven (pp. 295-324). Mouton de Gruyter. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/205635