This cutting-edge volume describes the implications of Cognitive Linguistics for the study of second language acquisition (SLA). The first two sections identify theoretical and empirical strands of Cognitive Linguistics, presenting them as a coherent whole

The book is a general introduction to the area of theoretical linguistics known as cognitive linguistics, this textbook provides up-to-date coverage of all areas of the field, including recent developments within cognitive semantics, and cognitive approaches to grammar

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the main theoretical concepts and descriptive/theoretical models of cognitive linguistics, and covers its various subfields, theoretical as well as applied. It starts with a set of articles discussing different conceptual phenomena that are recognized as key concepts in cognitive linguistics: prototypicality, metaphor, metonymy, embodiment, perspectivization, mental spaces

Cognitive Linguistics (CL) is an approach to the study of language informed byboth linguistics and psychology. It describes how language interfaces with cogni-tion, and how it adapts in the course of language usage, phylogenetically in lan-guage evolution, ontogenetically in language acquisition, and moment-to-momentin situated, on-line language processing and performance. Second LanguageAcquisition (SLA) involves the study of the cognitive representations and mech-anisms of second language processing, their time-course of acquisition, and,where possible and feasible, their relevance to instruction.The Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition bringsthese two areas of theory and research together