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Randal Holme

Cognitive Linguistics and Language Teaching

Also by Randal Holme ESP Ideas Literacy: An Introduction Mind, Metaphor and Language Teaching Talking Texts

Cognitive Linguistics and Language Teaching Randal Holme Department of English, The Hong Kong Institute of Education

© Randal Holme 2009 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2009 978-0-230-53739-2 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2009 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries.

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Contents

List of Activities

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List of Figures and Tables

xi

Acknowledgements

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1 Introduction The linguistics applied approach: generative linguistics and second language learning The applied linguistics of second language learning Language as a social semiotic The emergence of cognitive linguistics Ending the LA–AL divide The purpose of the book

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Part I Embodied Experience 2 The Problem of Linguistic Meaning Introduction The problem of meaning Language learning as category learning Conclusions 3 Conceptualisation, Embodiment and the Origins of Meaning Introduction Proprioception: how the body remains aware of its own position in space Not seeing but conceptualising Cognitive development and infant movement Aplasic phantoms Mirror neurons The nature of language: image schemas and embodied cognition Education and emb