Conceptual metaphors as a tool for the efficient teaching of Dutch and German posture verbs

De Knop, Sabine; Perrez, Julien

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Conceptual metaphors as a tool for the efficient teaching of Dutch and German posture verbs

De Knop, Sabine; Perrez, Julien

2014 • In Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 12 (1), p. 1-29

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Cognitive Linguistics; Conceptual metaphors; Foreign language pedagogy

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[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.

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Languages & linguistics

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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

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English

Title :

Conceptual metaphors as a tool for the efficient teaching of Dutch and German posture verbs

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01 April 2014

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Review of Cognitive Linguistics

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1877-9751

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1877-976X

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John Benjamins

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1-29

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Keywords: posture verbs, teaching efficiency, pedagogical issues, typological differences, Romance languages, Germanic languages, conceptual metaphor, French-speaking learners, Dutch, German

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