Language in the context of use

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This volume examines the intersections between cognitive and discourse approaches to language and language learning, focusing on everyday interaction and cognition. Contributors adopt a usage-based perspective, viewing language as integral to the systems that shape social life and human thought. While they share core assumptions, the distinct areas of inquiry and emphases in discourse analysis and cognitive linguistics have historically led to a lack of awareness regarding their interrelations. Consequently, researchers have often missed opportunities to explore how insights from each perspective can enhance and challenge the other. The papers presented here aim to bridge this gap, offering dynamic analyses that deepen our understanding of language and language learning. The contributors utilize a variety of frameworks, including Cognitive Grammar, Mental Space Theory, Construction Grammar, ethnomethodology, and interactional sociolinguistics. Their inquiries span a wide range of topics, such as first and second language acquisition, signed languages, syntactic phenomena, interactional dynamics, discourse markers, metaphor theory, polysemy, language processing, and humor. This volume is valuable for researchers in cognitive linguistics, discourse analysis, and language learning, including those focused on signed languages.