文档介绍：HANDBOOK OF COGNITIVE
LINGUISTICS AND SECOND
LANGUAGE ACQUISTION
Cognitive Linguistics (CL) is an approach to the study of language informed by
both linguistics and psychology. It describes how language interfaces with cogni-
tion, and how it adapts in the course of language usage, ically in lan-
guage evolution, ically in language acquisition, and moment-to-moment
in situated, on-line language processing and performance. Second Language
Acquisition (SLA) involves the study of the cognitive representations and mech-
anisms of second language processing, their time-course of acquisition, and,
where possible and feasible, their relevance to instruction.
The Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition brings
these two areas of theory and research together. It provides in nine chapters
making up Part II, “Cognitive Linguistics and cognition,” up-to-date coverage of
theoretical and empirical issues in the rapidly developing domain of CL research.
The nine chapters in Part III, “Cognitive Linguistics, Second Language Acquisi-
tion, and L2 instruction” demonstrate the relevance of these basic CL concepts,
and theoretical frameworks for researching them, to the fields of SLA and
language pedagogy. The chapters are written by acknowledged experts in the fields
of psychology, linguistics, and SLA, and an extensive agenda for future research
linking them is proposed both in individual chapters and in synthesis in the final
chapter. This handbook, thus, provides a new appreciation of the relationships
between cognitive theory, first and second language acquisition research, and their
pedagogic applications.
Peter Robinson is Professor of Linguistics and SLA in the Department of
English, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo. His books include Consciousness,
Rules and Instructed Second Language Acquisition (1996), Lang; Cognition and Second
Language Instruction (2001), Cambridge University Press; and Individual Differences
and Instructe