The purpose of this study is to explore the applicability of Cognitive Linguistics to English grammar education. To achieve the purpose, the following topics of Cognitive Linguistics are examined: image schemas(emotion-related prepositions), cognitive...
The purpose of this study is to explore the applicability of Cognitive Linguistics to English grammar education. To achieve the purpose, the following topics of Cognitive Linguistics are examined: image schemas(emotion-related prepositions), cognitive models, viewing, and iconicity. Any educational grammar has to be aimed at the foreign language learners and teachers, and it should promote insight into, and to facilitate the acquisition of a target language. Explanations are needed to do so. Explanations should be succinct, easily understandable, intuitively plausible regarding why the foreign language should be as it is. Therefore, instead of exhaustive listing of the rules and rote memorization, the educational grammar should present systematic principles to the learners. The explanatory adequacy of the four topics of Cognitive Grammar can be said to be higher than any other grammar. Thus we can apply the four topics and other topics most effectively to English grammar education.