Download or read book Theory and Language Acquisition written by Martin Pütz and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-05-18 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a usage-based language theory, cognitive linguistics is predestined to have an impact on applied research in such areas as language in society, ideology, language acquisition, language pedagogy. The present volumes are a first systematic attempt to carve out pathways from the links between language and cognition to the fields of language acquisition and language pedagogy and to deal with them in one coherent framework: applied cognitive linguistics.