Usage-Based Perspectives on Second Language Learning.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Advancing usage-based approaches to L2 studies -- Part I: Perspectives on usage in L2 learning and teaching -- Multidimensional SLA -- Cognitive and Social Aspects of Learning from Usage -- Designing for Language Learning in the Wild: Creating social infrastructures for second language learning -- Part II: The role of frequency and exposure in L2 learning -- Structural priming and the acquisition of novel form-meaning mappings -- Input and language competence in early-start foreign language classrooms -- Online informal learning of English: frequency effects in the uptake of chunks of language from participation in web-based activities -- Part III: Development of L2 interactional and constructional competence -- Long-term development in an instructed adult L2 learner: Usage-based and complexity theory applied -- On the development of motion constructions in four learners of L2 English -- The development of L2 interactional competence: evidence from turn-taking organization, sequence organization, repair organization and preference organization -- Part IV: Usage-based L2 pedagogy -- "I told you": Storytelling development of a Japanese learning English as a Second Language -- A Dynamic Usage-based Approach to Second Language Teaching -- L1, quantity of exposure to L2, and reading disability as factors in L2 literacy skills -- Part V: Synthesis -- Usage-based SLA: A Research Habitus Whose Time Has Come -- Subject index.

Honorary editor: René Dirven The series Applications of Cognitive Linguistics (ACL) welcomes book proposals from any domain where the theoretical insights developed in Cognitive Linguistics (CL) have been (or could be) fruitfully applied. In the past thirty-five years, the CL movement has articulated a rich and satisfying view of language around a small number of foundational principles. The first one argues that language faculties do not constitute a separate module of cognition, but emerge as specialized uses of more general cognitive abilities. The second principle emphasises the symbolic function of language. The grammar of individual languages (including the lexicon, morphology, and syntax) can be exclusively described as a structured inventory of conventionalized symbolic units. The third principle states that meaning is equated with conceptualization. It is subjective, anthropomorphic, and crucially incorporates humans' experience with their bodies and the world around them. Finally, CL's Usage-Based conception anchors the meaning of linguistic expressions in the rich soil of their social usage. Consequently, usage-related issues such as frequency and entrenchment contribute to their semantic import. Taken together, these principles provide researchers in different academic fields with a powerful theoretical framework for the investigation of linguistic issues in the specific context of their particular disciplines. The primary focus of ACL is to serve as a high level forum for the result of these investigations.

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