Boers Frank, Lindstromberg Seth (editors). Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Teaching Vocabulary and Phraseology

Mouton de Gruyter, 2008. — 409 p.This collective volume is about ways in which cognitive linguistics (CL) – more specifically, CL insights into the non-arbitrary nature of language – can facilitate the teaching and learning of words and phrases in a second or foreign language. Thus, it is the common project of all our contributors to consider means whereby teachers and materials writers might exploit motivation of lexical units for the benefit of their students.