A travers une étude de cas sur l'usage des modaux anglais may et can par des apprenants Français et des Chinois, la linguiste analyse les modes d'appropriation d'une langue seconde. ©Electre 2025
Corpora and language in use
This volume is a comprehensive corpus-based study of how learners of English (specifically French and Chinese) use the modal verbs may and can. Taking the reader through four related case studies that emphasize particular aspects of second language acquisition and learner corpus research, this volume shows how our understanding of learner language is significantly improved when a cognitive linguistic theoretical approach is combined with a quantitative multifactorial methodology. Specifically, new aspects of learner grammars are unveiled and cognitively informed hypotheses are formulated about how interlanguage varieties crystallize. Ultimately, this volume sheds light on the overarching question of what motivates English learners to shape their second language the way they do.
This volume presents insightful data valuable to researchers and postgraduate students whose main interests include: modality, learner corpus research, applied approaches to construction grammar and corpus-based cognitive linguistics. This volume is also suitable for researchers interested in multifactorial analyses and how several variables can simultaneously affect the production of learner language.
Paru le : 19/09/2016
Thématique : Linguistique
Auteur(s) : Auteur : Sandra Deshors
Éditeur(s) :
Presses universitaires de Louvain
Collection(s) : Corpora and language in use
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : 978-2-87558-475-5
EAN13 : 9782875584755
Reliure : Broché
Pages : 297
Hauteur: 24.0 cm / Largeur 16.0 cm
Poids: 600 g
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