兰德尔·霍姆（Randal Holme）是英国杜伦大学语言中心主任，主要研究兴趣为语言学、应用语言学以及语言教学中对创意写作的应用。

进入21世纪后，认知语言学研究表现出的一个比较明显的趋势是与其他学科相结合，产生了新的研究视角。本书的**亮点是作者并没有空泛地倡导用认知语言学理论指导二语课堂教学，而是有针对性地设计了不少适用于课堂教学的练习和活动，其中既有词汇学习方面的活动，也有语法学习方面的活动。本书是将认知语言学理论运用于语言教学实践的一个大胆且有益的尝试。

Contents
List of Activities xxiii
List of Figures and Tables xxv
1 Introduction 1
The linguistics applied approach： generative linguistics and second language learning
2
The applied linguistics of second language learning 4
Language as a social semiotic 5
The emergence of cognitive linguistics 6
Ending the LA-AL divide 10
The purpose of the book 12
Part I Embodied Experience
2 The Problem of Linguistic Meaning 17
Introduction 17
The problem of meaning 17
Language learning as category learning 21
Conclusions 27
3 Conceptualisation， Embodiment and the Origins of Meaning 29
Introduction 29
Proprioception： how the body remains aware of its own position in space 31
Not seeing but conceptualising 32
Cognitive development and infant movement 33
Aplasic phantoms 34
Mirror neurons 35
The nature of language： image schemas and embodied cognition 36
Education and embodiment 39
Language teaching and embodiment： language as rhythm and movement 41
Language teaching and embodiment： mime， enactment and movement 44
Language teaching and embodiment： rethinking TPR 48
Conclusions 52
4 Gesture 54
Introduction 54
The importance of gesture in communication 54
Gesture in education 56
Gesture and teaching prepositions 58
Gesture and English articles 60
Conclusions 62
Part II Conceptualisation
5 Language， Culture and Linguistic Relativity 65
Introduction 65
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis 67
Meaning and conceptualisation 69
Linguistic relativity： how different is different? 75
Experimental evidence for linguistic relativity 77
To learn new meanings， do we have to conceptualise the world differently? 80
Second language errors and linguistic relativity 81
Errors that use first language forms and meanings within the second language 84
Errors that over-generalise some acquired formal or semantic feature of the second language 86
False friends