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Conceptual metaphors as a tool for the efficient teaching of Dutch and German posture verbs
De Knop, Sabine; Perrez, Julien
2014In Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 12 (1), p. 1-29
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Keywords :
Cognitive Linguistics; Conceptual metaphors; Foreign language pedagogy
Abstract :
[en] The article deals with the typological differences between the Romance lan- guage French and the Germanic languages German and Dutch for the linguistic expressions of posture and location. It describes how these typological differ- ences can be problematic for French-speaking learners of German and Dutch. The main difference between both types of languages is that posture and loca- tion tend to be encoded by posture verbs in Germanic languages and by very general verbs in Romance languages (Talmy 2000). After a detailed description of the semantic networks of the German and Dutch posture verbs, the paper takes a critical look at how these expressions are dealt with in teaching manuals. It further presents strategies for the efficient teaching of posture verbs to foreign language learners. These strategies are among others awareness-raising exercis- es about the compulsory use of posture verbs in Germanic languages and the description of conceptual metaphors in different languages. These pedagogical avenues for the efficient teaching of the Dutch and German posture verbs con- stitute a first step towards the elaboration of an experimental set-up aiming at verifying them.
Disciplines :
Languages & linguistics
Author, co-author :
De Knop, Sabine;  Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis - FUSL
Perrez, Julien  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des langues et littératures modernes > Langue néerlandaise moderne et linguistique synchronique
Language :
English
Title :
Conceptual metaphors as a tool for the efficient teaching of Dutch and German posture verbs
Publication date :
01 April 2014
Journal title :
Review of Cognitive Linguistics
ISSN :
1877-9751
eISSN :
1877-976X
Publisher :
John Benjamins
Volume :
12
Issue :
1
Pages :
1-29
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Commentary :
Keywords: posture verbs, teaching efficiency, pedagogical issues, typological differences, Romance languages, Germanic languages, conceptual metaphor, French-speaking learners, Dutch, German
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