Enhancing the Role of Meaning in the L2 Classroom: A Cognitive Linguistics Perspective

From the Cognitive Linguistics (CL) stance, language is a dynamic interplay of complex subsystems composed of symbolic units, and meaning is the driving force behind form. Meaning arises from our physical experience (i.e., embodied cognition), and interacts with culture-specific ways of conceptualiz...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Natalia Sáez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Columbia University Libraries 2015-12-01
Series:Working Papers in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
Subjects:
SLA
L2
Online Access:https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D88D1755/download