Main 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.
Table of contents:
- i. Dedications
- ii. Acknowledgements
- iii. Table of Contents
- iii. Foreword
- iv. Introduction: The Many Faces of Research in Cognitive Linguistics
- Methods and Motivations
- Why Cognitive Linguists Should Care More About Empirical Methods
- They actually said that? An Introduction to Working with Usage Data Through Discourse and Corpus Analysis
- An Introduction to Experimental Methods for Language Researchers
- Inferential Statistics in the context of Empirical Cognitive Linguistics
- Corpus and Discourse Analysis
- Multiple Empirical Paths to a Complex Analysis of Discourse
- A Case for a Cognitive Corpus Linguistics
- Sign Language and Gesture
- Empirical Methods in Signed Language Research
- Looking at space to study mental spaces
- Methodology for Multimodality
- Behavioral Research
- Experimental Methods for Studying Language and Space
- Experimental Methods for Simulation Semantics
- Experimental Methods for Studying the Mental Representation of Language
- Eye Movements in Language and Cognition
- Speaking for the Wordless
- Experimental Study of First and Second Language Morphological Processing
- Neural Approaches
- Electrifying Results
- Bridging Language with the Rest of Cognition
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.
Table of contents:
- i. Dedications
- ii. Acknowledgements
- iii. Table of Contents
- iii. Foreword
- iv. Introduction: The Many Faces of Research in Cognitive Linguistics
- Methods and Motivations
- Why Cognitive Linguists Should Care More About Empirical Methods
- They actually said that? An Introduction to Working with Usage Data Through Discourse and Corpus Analysis
- An Introduction to Experimental Methods for Language Researchers
- Inferential Statistics in the context of Empirical Cognitive Linguistics
- Corpus and Discourse Analysis
- Multiple Empirical Paths to a Complex Analysis of Discourse
- A Case for a Cognitive Corpus Linguistics
- Sign Language and Gesture
- Empirical Methods in Signed Language Research
- Looking at space to study mental spaces
- Methodology for Multimodality
- Behavioral Research
- Experimental Methods for Studying Language and Space
- Experimental Methods for Simulation Semantics
- Experimental Methods for Studying the Mental Representation of Language
- Eye Movements in Language and Cognition
- Speaking for the Wordless
- Experimental Study of First and Second Language Morphological Processing
- Neural Approaches
- Electrifying Results
- Bridging Language with the Rest of Cognition