TY - BOOK AU - Abe,Sayaka AU - Akita,Kimi AU - Ikegami,Yoshihiko AU - Imai,Shingo AU - Ishiyama,Osamu AU - Kabata,Kaori AU - Mitsugi,Sanako AU - Nishi,Yumiko AU - Pei-sui Luk,Zoe AU - Shirai,Yasuhiro AU - Toratani,Kiyoko AU - Yoshinari,Yuko TI - Cognitive-Functional Approaches to the Study of Japanese as a Second Language T2 - Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] , SN - 9781614517061 AV - PL520.A8 U1 - 495.6 23 PY - 2016///] CY - Berlin, Boston PB - De Gruyter Mouton KW - Intercultural communication KW - Japanese language KW - Textbooks for foreign speakers KW - English KW - Study and teaching KW - English speakers KW - Teachers, Foreign KW - United States KW - Teaching KW - Cross-cultural studies KW - Textbooks KW - for English speakers KW - Kognitiv Linguistik KW - Zweitspracherwerb KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh KW - Cognitive Linguistics KW - Japanese Language KW - Second Language Acquisition N1 - Frontmatter --; Table of contents --; Preface --; List of contributors --; 1. Application of cognitive-functional linguistics to the study of Japanese as a second and foreign language: An introduction --; Part I: Usage-based approaches --; 2. The acquisition of linguistic categories in second language acquisition: A functionalist approach --; 3. Friendly and respectful politeness: A functional analysis of L2 utterances --; 4. What learners know about lexical aspect in L2: Motion verbs kuru ‘come’ and iku ‘go’ and the acquisition of imperfective -teiru in Japanese --; 5. A usage-based account of learner acquisition of Japanese particles ni and de --; 6. A usage-based approach to relativization: An investigation of advanced-learners’ written production of relative clauses in Japanese --; Part II: Conceptual approaches --; 7. A multimedia encyclopedia of Japanese mimetics: A frame-semantic approach to L2 sound-symbolic words --; 8. A cognitive approach to the comprehension of intransitive constructions in L1 and L2 Japanese --; 9. An L2 corpus study of the Japanese grammatical marker -te-simau: An application of force dynamics --; 10. The L2 acquisition of Japanese Motion event descriptions by L1 English speakers: An exploratory study --; 11. Influence of L1 English on the descriptions of motion events in L2 Japanese with focus on deictic expressions --; 12. Subject-object contrast (shukakutairitsu) and subject-object merger (shukaku-gouitsu) in “thinking for speaking”¹: A typology of the speaker’s preferred stances of construal across languages and its implications for language teaching --; Part III: Current state and future directions of cognitive-functional-linguistics-informed L2 studies --; 13. A survey of work published in Japan at the dawn of the new millennium --; 14. Towards better integration of linguistics research, SLA, and pedagogy --; Subject index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - This innovative and original volume brings together studies that apply cognitive and functional linguistics to the study of the L2 acquisition of Japanese. With each article grounded on the usage-based model and/or conceptual notions such as foregrounding and subjectivity, the volume sheds light on how cognitive and functional linguistics can help us understand aspects of Japanese acquisition that have been neglected by traditionalists UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614515029 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781614515029 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781614515029/original ER -