Applied cognitive linguistics and second/foreign language varieties: Towards an explanatory account
(2017) Usage-based Approaches to Language Acquisition and Language Teaching — ISBN: [978-1-5015-1456-2], 47-71, published
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- The chapter starts by giving a broad overview of the field of applied cognitive linguistics, with special emphasis on second/foreign language teaching (which has attracted quite some attention in the cognitive literature) and second/foreign language learning (which tends to have been neglected). In Section 3, two case studies are used to illustrate how cognitive linguistics can account for some of the non-standard characteristics found in second and foreign language varieties. The first case study deals with transfer in English as a foreign language, using the concepts of prototypicality and psychotypology, whilst the second one adopts a Construction Grammar approach to study the misuse of prepositional complements in institutionalized second-language varieties of English (New Englishes). The case studies, which both rely on corpus data, also serve to demonstrate that the explanatory power of cognitive linguistics represents a valuable complement to the descriptive adequacy of corpus linguistics, and that the combination of the two frameworks has much to offer from an applied perspective. The chapter ends with a brief discussion of what I see as promising avenues for research in applied cognitive linguistics, as well as some concluding remarks.
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Gilquin, G. (2017). Applied cognitive linguistics and second/foreign language varieties: Towards an explanatory account. In Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul & Elena Tribushinina (ed.), Usage-based Approaches to Language Acquisition and Language Teaching (pp. 47-71). de Gruyter. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/223024