Methods in Cognitive Linguistics
Published on 28. June 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
452 pages
978-90-272-2372-2 (ISBN)
Description
Methods in Cognitive Linguistics is an introduction to empirical methodology for language researchers. Intended as a handbook to exploring the empirical dimension of the theoretical questions raised by Cognitive Linguistics, the volume presents guidelines for employing methods from a variety of intersecting disciplines, laying out different ways of gathering empirical evidence. The book is divided into five sections. Methods and Motivations provides the reader with the preliminary background in scientific methodology and statistics. The sections on Corpus and Discourse Analysis, and Sign Language and Gesture describe different ways of investigating usage data. Behavioral Research describes methods for exploring mental representation, simulation semantics, child language development, and the relationships between space and language, and eye movements and cognition. Lastly, Neural Approaches introduces the reader to ERP research and to the computational modeling of language.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
Weight
860 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-2372-2 (9789027223722)
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Content
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