Cognitive and Discourse Perspe: on Language and Language Andrea E. Tyler, Mari Takada, YiyoungGeorgetown University Press, Washington, D.C. ©2005 by Georgetown University Press. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America 10987654321 2005 This book is printed on acid-free paper meeting the requirements of the American ‘National Standard for Permanence in Paper for Printed Library Materials. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Language in use : cognitive and discourse perspectives on language and language learning / Andrea E. Tyler... [et al.}, editors. p. cm. — (Georgetown university round table on languages and linguistics series) Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary: “This book explores how language is shaped by the nature of human cognition and social-cultural activity, by studying how language is used in context in interactions between at least two people in order to achieve some purpose. It brings together perspectives from cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis, and first and second language acquisition research”—Provided by the publisher. ISBN 1-58901-044-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Language acquisition. 2. Cognitive grammar. 3. Discourse analysis. I. Tyler, Andrea. IL Georgetown University round table on languages and linguisties series (2004). PII8.L3638 2005 401'.93—de22 2004023 166© Contents Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Andrea Tyler PART I: LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND FIRST-LANGUAGE LEARNING 1. Support from Language Processing for a Constructional Approach to Grammar § Adele E. Goldberg and Giulia M. L. Bencini, Princeton University and New York University 2. Homonyms and Functional Mappings in Language Acquisition ® Devin M. Casenhiser, Princeton University 3. little Persuaders: Japanese Children’s Use of Datte (bu-because) and Their Developing Theories of Mind 1 Tomoko Matsui, Peter McCagg, and Taeko Yamamoto, International Christian University, Japan 4, “Because” as a Marker of Collaborative Stance in Preschool Children’s Peer Interactions & Amy Kyratzis, University of California, Santa Barbara PART Il: ISSUES IN SECOND-LANGUAGE LEARNING. 5. Contextualizing Interlanguage Pragmatics @ Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, Indiana University 6. Learning the Discourse of Friendship ™ Catherine Evans Davies, University of Alabama 7. Applied Cognitive Linguistics and Newer Trends in Foreign Language Teaching Methodology ® Susanne Niemeier, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany v vii xi 36 65 85