Methods in Cognitive Linguistics

1. Contributors; 2. Acknowledgements; 3. Foreword (by Talmy, Leonard); 4. Introduction: The many faces of research in Cognitive Linguistics; 5. I. Methods and motivations; 6. Why cognitive linguists should care more about empirical methods (by Gibbs, Jr., Raymond W.); 7. They actually said that? An introduction to working with usage data through discourse and corpus analysis (by Mittelberg, Irene); 8. An introduction to experimental methods for language researchers (by Gonzalez-Marquez, Monica); 9. Inferential statistics in the context of empirical cognitive linguistics (by Nunez, Rafael); 10. II. Corpus and discourse analysis; 11. Multiple empirical approaches to a complex analysis of discourse (by Waugh, Linda R.); 12. A case for a cognitive corpus linguistics (by Grondelaers, Stef); 13. III. Sign language and gesture; 14. Empirical methods in signed language research (by Wilcox, Sherman); 15. Looking at space to study mental spaces: Co-speech gesture as a crucial data source in cognitive linguistics (by Sweetser, Eve); 16. Methodology for multimodality: One way of working with speech and gesture data (by Mittelberg, Irene); 17. IV. Behavioral research; 18. Experimental methods for studying language and space (by Carlson, Laura A.); 19. Experimental methods for simulation semantics (by Bergen, Benjamin K.); 20. Experimental methods for studying the mental representation of language (by Hasson, Uri); 21. Eye movements in language and cognition: A brief introduction (by Richardson, Daniel C.); 22. Speaking for the wordless: Methods for studying the foundations of cognitive linguistics in infants (by Brandone, Amanda); 23. Experimental study of first and second language morphological processing (by Gor, Kira); 24. V. Neural approaches; 25. Electrifying results: ERP data and cognitive linguistics (by Coulson, Seana); 26. Bridging language with the rest of cognition: Computational, algorithmic and neurobiological issues and methods (by Edelman, Shimon); 27. Index