tailieunhanh - The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Part 119

The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics Part 119. In the past decade, Cognitive Linguistics has developed into one of the most dynamic and attractive frameworks within theoretical and descriptive linguistics The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics is a major new reference that presents a comprehensive overview of the main theoretical concepts and descriptive/theoretical models of Cognitive Linguistics, and covers its various subfields, theoretical as well as applied. | 1150 MARTIN PÜTZ of learning points that identify a sense of the preposition which is worth bringing to the attention of individual students at some point in their learning career Lindstromberg 1996 228 . In particular exploiting the notion prototypicality he attempts to demonstrate that a wide range of nonspatial meanings of the preposition on can be regarded as special instances or metaphorical extensions of its spatial meanings. Just like on in its concrete meaning denotes contact . The pencil is on the book and we may add support . The man is sitting on the chair in its metaphorical extensions it also means mental contact . I spoke to her on the phone or mental support . You can rely on me . All in all Lind-stromberg s study provides one of the first attempts to consider the applied cognitive linguistic aspects of prepositional meaning see also his more comprehensive volume on explaining prepositions Lindstromberg 1998 . The prototype perspective is also employed by Ungerer 2001 who is concerned with the notion of basic-level terms and their application in vocabulary acquisition. Ungerer holds that superordinate and subordinate concepts in First Language Acquisition are acquired later than basic ones and that this order should also serve as a model in context of Second Language Acquisition especially in the teaching of vocabulary. Traditionally frequency lists or pedagogical vocabularies have been devised without any semantic principles underlying the composition of basic vocabulary lists. Ungerer attempts to show that a more systematic ordering of vocabulary is possible when basic terms are discussed and taught in light of their intrinsic connection with the superordinate and subordinate terms. On the basis of a corpus study comprising German textbooks of English and several newspapers he demonstrates that vocabulary selection for example would benefit mostly from the basic nonbasic distinction if basic-level terms were preferred as entry points .