Cognitive-Functional Approaches to the Study of Japanese as a Second Language

Table of contents\nPreface\nList of contributors\n1. Application of cognitive-functional linguistics to the study of Japanese as a second and foreign language: An introduction\nPart I: Usage-based approaches\n	2. The acquisition of linguistic categories in second language acquisition: A functionalist approach\n	3. Friendly and respectful politeness: A functional analysis of L2 utterances\n	4. What learners know about lexical aspect in L2: Motion verbs kuru ‘come’ and iku ‘go’ and the acquisition of imperfective -teiru in Japanese\n	5. A usage-based account of learner acquisition of Japanese particles ni and de\n	6. A usage-based approach to relativization: An investigation of advanced-learners’ written production of relative clauses in Japanese\nPart II: Conceptual approaches\n	7. A multimedia encyclopedia of Japanese mimetics: A frame-semantic approach to L2 sound-symbolic words\n	8. A cognitive approach to the comprehension of intransitive constructions in L1 and L2 Japanese\n	9. An L2 corpus study of the Japanese grammatical marker -te-simau: An application of force dynamics\n	10. The L2 acquisition of Japanese Motion event descriptions by L1 English speakers: An exploratory study\n	11. Influence of L1 English on the descriptions of motion events in L2 Japanese with focus on deictic expressions\n	12. Subject-object contrast (shukakutairitsu) and subject-object merger (shukaku-gouitsu) in “thinking for speaking”¹: A typology of the speaker’s preferred stances of construal across languages and its implications for language teaching\nPart III: Current state and future directions of cognitive-functional-linguistics-informed L2 studies\n	13. A survey of work published in Japan at the dawn of the new millennium\n	14. Towards better integration of linguistics research, SLA, and pedagogy\nSubject index