The Effectiveness of Cognitive Linguistics for Language Pedagogical Purposes
Abstract
This article is about applied cognitive corpus linguistics, that is, the combined use of cognitive linguistics and corpus linguistics for pedagogical purposes. Cognitive linguistics brings together several theories, including Cognitive Grammar, (several models of) Construction Grammar (CxG) and conceptual metaphor theory, which differ from one another but also share some important tenets, most notably the idea that all language units are meaningful and convey a certain conceptualization. The article describes the main features of each framework from a teaching perspective and emphasizes their complementarity. Several illustrations show how applied cognitive corpus linguistics combines the benefits of corpus data with the benefits of cognitive principles in a way that supports the development of the learner's language system.