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Title Cognitive-functional approaches to the study of Japanese as a second language / edited by Kaori Kabata and Kiyoko Toratani.

Publication Info. Boston ; Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 371 pages) : illustrations.
English language
text file
Series Studies on language acquisition ; v. 46
Studies on language acquisition ; 46.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Preface -- List of contributors -- Application of cognitive-functional linguistics to the study of Japanese as a second and foreign language : an introduction / Kaori Kabata and Kiyoko Toratani -- Usage-based approaches -- Acquisition of linguistic categories in second language acquisition : a functionalist approach / Yasuhiro Shirai -- Friendly and respectful politeness : a functional analysis of L2 utterances / Osamu Ishiyama -- What learners know about lexical aspect in L2 : motion verbs kuru 'come' and iku 'go' and the acquisition of imperfective -teiru in Japanese / Yumiko Nishi -- A usage-based account of learner acquisition of Japanese particles ni and de / Kaori Kabata -- A usage-based approach to relativization : an investigation of advanced-learners' written production of relative clauses in Japanese / Sanako Mitsugi -- Conceptual approaches -- A multimedia encyclopedia of Japanese mimetics : a frame-semantic approach to L2 sound-symbolic words / Kimi Akita -- A cognitive approach to the comprehension of intransitive constructions in L1 and L2 Japanese / Zoe Pei-sui Luk -- An L2 corpus study of the Japanese grammatical marker -te-simau : an application of force dynamics / Sayaka Abe -- L2 acquisition of Japanese motion event descriptions by L1 English speakers : an exploratory study / Kiyoko Toratani -- Influence of L1 English on the descriptions of motion events in L2 Japanese with focus on deictic expressions / Yuko Yoshinari -- Subject-object contrast (shukaku-tairitsu) and subject-object merger (shukaku-gouitsu) in "thinking for speaking" : a typology of the speaker's preferred stances of construal across languages and its implications for language teaching / Yoshihiko Ikegami -- Current state and future directions of cognitive-functional-linguistics-informed L2 studies -- A survey of work published in Japan at the dawn of the new millennium / Shingo Imai -- Towards better integration of linguistics research, SLA, and pedagogy / Kaori Kabata and Kiyoko Toratani -- Subject index.
Summary "This volume is a collection of papers that show how insights from cognitive-functional linguistics can be applied to studies of acquisition and teaching of Japanese as a second or foreign language ... the book stems from a symposium entitled, 'Cognitive-Functional Approaches to the Study of Japanese as Second Language,' held on June 21, 2013, in the midst of the once-in-a-century flooding in Calgary, Alberta."--Preface.
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Subject Japanese language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers -- English.
Japanese language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers.
Japanese language -- Study and teaching -- English speakers.
Japanese language -- Study and teaching -- English speakers.
Intercultural communication.
Intercultural communication.
Teachers, Foreign -- United States.
Teachers, Foreign.
United States.
Teaching -- Cross-cultural studies.
Teaching.
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies.
Textbooks -- for English speakers.
Electronic books.
Textbooks.
Textbooks.
Added Author Kabata, Kaori, editor.
Toratani, Kiyoko, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Cognitive-functional approaches to the study of Japanese as a second language. Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, ©2016 9781614517061 (DLC) 2015036621 (OCoLC)927166035
ISBN 9781614515036 (electronic book)
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