Language in Use creatively brings together, for the first time, perspectives from cognitive linguistics, language acquisition, discourse analysis, and linguistic anthropology. The physical distance between nations and continents, and the boundaries between different theories and subfields within linguistics have made it difficult to recognize the possibilities of how research from each of these fields can challenge, inform, and enrich the others. This book aims to make those boundaries more transparent and encourages more collaborative research.

The unifying theme is studying how language is used in context and explores how language is shaped by the nature of human cognition and social-cultural activity. Language in Use examines language processing and first language learning and illuminates the insights that discourse and usage-based models provide in issues of second language learning. Using a diverse array of methodologies, it examines how speakers employ various discourse-level resources to structure interaction and create meaning. Finally, it addresses issues of language use and creation of social identity.

Unique in approach and wide-ranging in application, the contributions in this volume place emphasis on the analysis of actual discourse and the insights that analyses of such data bring to language learning as well as how language shapes and reflects social identity—making it an invaluable addition to the library of anyone interested in cutting-edge linguistics.

Andrea E. Tyler is a professor of linguistics at Georgetown University. She is coauthor (with Vyvyan Evans) of The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning, and Cognition and Language and Space.

Mari Takada is a PhD candidate in linguistics at Georgetown University.

Yiyoung Kim is a PhD candidate in applied linguistics at Georgetown University.

Diana Marinova is a graduate student in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University.

ContentsTitle Page	1Table of Contents	2Acknowledgements	6Introduction	7	Andrea TylerPART I: LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND FIRST LANGUAGE LEARNING1. Support from Language Processing for a Constructional Approach to Gram=mar	16Adele E. Goldberg and Giulia M. L. BenciniUniversity of Illinois and New York University2. Homonyms and Functional Mappings in Language Acquisition	51Devin CasenhiserUniversity of Illinois3. Little Persuaders: Japanese Children's Use of Datte (but-because) and Their Developing Theories of Mind	87Tomoko Matsui, Peter McCagg, and Taeko YamamotoInternational Christian University, Japan4. "Because" as a Marker of Collaborative Stance	in Preschool Children's Peer Interactions	122Amy KyratzisUniversity of California, Santa BarbaraPART II: ISSUES IN SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING5. Contextualizing Interlanguage Pragmatics	146Kathleen Bardovi-HarligIndiana University6. Learning the Discourse of Friendship	180Catherine Evans DaviesUniversity of Alabama7. Applied Cognitive Linguistics and Newer Trends in Foreign Language Teaching Methodology	207Susanne NiemeierUniversity Koblenz-Landau, Germany8. Language Play and Language Learning: Creating Zones of Proximal Develo=pment in a Third Grade Multilingual Classroom	227Ana Christina Da Silva Iddings and Steven G. McCaffertyVanderbilt University and University of Nevada at Las Vegas9. Cognates, Cognition and Writing: An Investigation of the Use of Cognates by University Second Language Lea=rners	248 Robin Cameron Scarcella and Cheryl Boyd Zimmerman University of California at Irvine and California State University, Fulle=rtonPART III: DISCOURSE RESOURCES AND MEANING CONSTRUCTION10. Intonation, Mental Representation, and Mutual Knowledge	278Ann WennerstromUniversity of Washington11. Linguistic Variation in the Lexical Episodes of University Classroom =Talk 	297Eniko CsomaySan Diego State University12. The Unofficial Businesses of Repair Initiation: Vehicles for Affiliation and Disaffiliation	319Hansun Zhang WaringMercy College13. Pragmatic Inferencing in Grammaticalization: A Case Study of Directional Verbs in Thai	341Kingkarn Thepkanjana and Satoshi UeharaChulalongkorn University, Thailand and Tohoku University, Japan PART IV: LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY14. "Trying on" the Identity of "Big Sister": Hypothetical Narratives in Parent-Child Discourse	364Cynthia GordonGeorgetown University15. The Discourse of Local Identity in Post-War Bosnia-Herzegovina	384Aida PremilovacGeorgetown University16. Immigration Geographies, Multilingual Immigrants and the Transmission of Minority Languages: Evidence from the Igbo Brain Drai=n	405Rachel ReynoldsDrexel University