Cognitive-Functional Approaches to the Study of Japanese as a Second Language

by Kaori Kabata (Editor), Kiyoko Toratani (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781614517061
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	01/15/2016
Series:	Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] , #46
Pages:	380
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Kaori Kabata, University of Alberta, Canada; Kiyoko Toratani, York University, Canada.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

List of contributors ix

1 Application of cognitive-functional linguistics to the study of Japanese as a second and foreign language: An introduction Kaori Kabata Kiyoko Toratani 1

Part I Usage-based approaches

2 The acquisition of linguistic categories in second language acquisition: A functionalist approach Yasuhiro Shirai 13

3 Friendly and respectful politeness: A functional analysis of L2 utterances Osamu Ishiyama 33

4 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 57

5 A usage-based account of learner acquisition of Japanese particles ni and de Kaori Kabata 89

6 A usage-based approach to relativization: An investigation of advanced-learners' written production of relative clauses in Japanese Sanako Mitsugi 113

Part II Conceptual approaches

7 A multimedia encyclopedia of Japanese mimetics: A frame-semantic approach to L2 sound-symbolic words Kimi Akita 139

8 A cognitive approach to the comprehension of intransitive constructions in L1 and L2 Japanese Zoe Pei-sui Luk 169

9 An L2 corpus study of the Japanese grammatical marker -te-simau: An application of force dynamics Sayaka Abe 203

10 The L2 acquisition of Japanese Motion event descriptions by L1 English speakers: An exploratory study Kiyoko Toratani 237

11 Influence of L1 English on the descriptions of motion events in L2 Japanese with focus on deictic expressions Yuko Yoshinari 275

12 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 Yosnihiko Ikegami 301

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 Shingo Imai 321

14 Towards better integration of linguistics research, SLA, and pedagogy Kaori Kabata Kiyoko Toratani 361

Subject index 369