Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Aspects of attention in language / Leonard Talmy -- Prototypes in cognitive linguistics / John R. Taylor -- Cognitive grammar as a basis for language instruction / Ronald W. Langacker -- Word grammar, cognitive linguistics, and second language learning and teaching / Richard Hudson -- Spatial language learning and the functional geometric framework / Kenny R. Coventry and Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes -- Language without grammar / William O'Grady -- Children's first language acquisition from a usage-based perspective / Elena Lieven and Michael Tomasello -- Construction learning and second language acquisition / Adele E. Goldberg and Devin Casenhiser -- Usage-based grammar and second language acquisition / Joan Bybee -- Learning to talk about motion in a foreign language / Teresa Cadierno -- Gestures and second language acquisition / Marianne Gullberg -- Conceptual transfer and meaning extensions / Terence Odlin -- A unified model / Brian MacWhinney -- Usage-based and form-focused language acquisiton : the associatve learning of constructions, learned attention, and the limited L2 endstate / Nick C. Ellis -- Corpus-based methods in analyses of second language acquisition data / Stefan Th. Gries -- Teaching construal : cognitive pedagogical grammar / Michel Achard -- Cognitive linguistics and second language instruction / Andrea Tyler -- Conclusion : Cognitive linguistics, second language acquisition and L2 instruction : issues for research / Peter Robinson and Nick C. Ellis.

"Cognitive Linguistics (Cl) is an approach to the study of language informed by both linguistics and psychology. It describes how language interfaces with cognition, and how it adapts in the course of language usage, phylogeneticallv in language evolution, ontogenetically in language acquisition, and moment-to-moment in situated, on-line language processing and performance. Second language Acquisition (SLA) involves the study of the cognitive representations and mechanisms of second language processing, their time-course of acquisition, and, where possible and feasible, their relevance to instruction, The Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Second language Acquisition brings these two areas of theory and research together."--BOOK JACKET.

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