Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction / Tyler, Andrea / Huang, Lihong
  • I. Categories and constructions in context
  • Teaching usage and concepts: Toward a cognitive pedagogical grammar / Achard, Michel
  • L2 constructions and interactional competence: Subordination and coordination in English L2 learning / Eskildsen, Søren W.
  • Optional that in complementation by German and Spanish learners / Wulff, Stefanie / Gries, Stefan Th. / Lester, Nicholas
  • French onions and Dutch trains: Typological perspectives on learners' descriptions of spatial scenes / Lemmens, Maarten / Perrez, Julien
  • II. Teaching construal and viewpoint
  • Since it is everywhere: Viewpoint in second language teaching / Dancygier, Barbara / Moder, Carol Lynn
  • Using blending theory to teach the English conditionals / Jacobsen, Natalia Dolgova
  • Making sense of the definite article through a pedagogical schematic / White, Benjamin J.
  • III. Polysemy
  • Reexamining por and para in the Spanish foreign language intermediate classroom: A usage-based, cognitive linguistic approach / Kissling, Elizabeth M. / Tyler, Andrea / Warren, Lisa / Negrete, Lauren
  • Polysemy and conceptual metaphors: A cognitive linguistics approach to vocabulary learning / Zhao, Helen / Yau, Thomas Siu-ho / Li, Keru / Wong, Noel Nga-yan
  • Embodied experience and the teaching and learning of L2 prepositions: A case study of abstract in and on / Falck, Marlene Johansson
  • Index