A New Frequency-Based Account of Common English Prepositions and Their Acquisition by Japanese Learners

常见英语介词的新频率描述及其日语学习者的习得

基本信息

批准号：
21K00653
负责人：
Mueller Charles
金额：
$ 2.75万
依托单位：
Fuji Women's University
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
2021-04-01 至 2025-03-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/en/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-21K00653/
关键词：
prepositions cognitive linguistics SLA frequency semantics force dynamics

项目摘要

The frequency of the senses of the prepositions AT, FOR, IN, ON, and TO were determined based on a random selection of sentences in six subsections (Academic, Fiction, Magazines, Newspapers, Spoken, TV/Movies) of the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). Measures to determine Japanese students' knowledge of the target prepositional senses were piloted with three classes (32 participants). Based on a review of the relevant literature and preliminary results of the research, I wrote and submitted three entries for the Cambridge Encyclopedia of Cognitive Linguistics. These articles, currently under review, included an article (4,289 words) on the semantics of prepositions based on the Cognitive Linguistic framework. The article reviews key approaches adopted in the last four decades and also discusses outstanding issues. Another article (3,411 words) dealt with force dynamics, a theoretical framework often employed when accounting for prepositional meaning. The third article (4,435 words) discussed pedagogical applications of the Cognitive Linguistic framework. Since a key application has been related to the semantics of prepositions, the article discussed this work along with the use of abstract diagrams in instruction materials. My 2022 article "Second Language Acquisition of English Prepositions", which previously appeared in The Bulletin of the Faculty of Humanities, Fuji Women’s University, Vol. 59 (pp. 17-44), was republished in the 55th issue of Collected Articles on English Language by the Ronsetsu Shiryo Hozonkai in Tokyo, Japan.

介词 AT、FOR、IN、ON 和 TO 的含义频率是根据当代语料库的六个小节（学术、小说、杂志、报纸、口语、电视/电影）中随机选择的句子确定的美国英语（COCA）。根据对相关文献的回顾和研究的初步结果，我在三个班级（32 名参与者）中试行了确定日本学生对目标介词意义的了解的措施。为《剑桥认知语言学百科全书》撰写并提交了三篇文章，目前正在审查中，其中包括一篇基于认知语言学框架的介词语义文章（4,289 字），该文章回顾了过去四十年采用的主要方法。另一篇文章（3,411 字）讨论了力动力学，这是解释介词意义时经常使用的理论框架。第三篇文章（4,435 字）讨论了这一问题。认知语言框架的教学应用由于一个关键应用与介词语义相关，因此本文讨论了这项工作以及我 2022 年文章“英语介词的第二语言习得”中的抽象图表。曾发表于《富士女子大学人文学院学报》第59卷（第17-44页），在第55期重新出版日本东京 Ronsetsu Shiryo Hozonkai 的英语语言文章集。