Methods in Cognitive Linguistics
Editors
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.
[Human Cognitive Processing, 18] 2007. xxviii, 452 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Contributors | p. viii
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Acknowledgements | pp. ix–x
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ForewordLeonard Talmy | pp. xi–xxi
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Introduction: The many faces of research in Cognitive Linguistics | pp. xxii–xxviii
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I. Methods and motivations
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Why cognitive linguists should care more about empirical methodsRaymond W. Gibbs | pp. 2–18
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They actually said that? An introduction to working with usage data through discourse and corpus analysisIrene Mittelberg, Thomas A. Farmer and Linda R. Waugh | pp. 19–52
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An introduction to experimental methods for language researchersMonica Gonzalez-Marquez, Raymond B. Becker and James E. Cutting | pp. 53–86
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Inferential statistics in the context of empirical cognitive linguisticsRafael Núñez | pp. 87–118
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II. Corpus and discourse analysis
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Multiple empirical approaches to a complex analysis of discourseLinda R. Waugh, Bonnie B. Fonseca-Greber, Caroline Vickers and Betil Eröz | pp. 120–148
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A case for a cognitive corpus linguisticsStef Grondelaers, Dirk Geeraerts and Dirk Speelman | pp. 149–169
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III. Sign language and gesture
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Empirical methods in signed language researchSherman Wilcox and Jill P. Morford | pp. 171–200
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Looking at space to study mental spaces: Co-speech gesture as a crucial data source in cognitive linguisticsEve Sweetser | pp. 201–224
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Methodology for multimodality: One way of working with speech and gesture dataIrene Mittelberg | pp. 225–248
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IV. Behavioral research
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Experimental methods for studying language and spaceLaura A. Carlson and Patrick L. Hill | pp. 250–276
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Experimental methods for simulation semanticsBenjamin K. Bergen | pp. 277–301
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Experimental methods for studying the mental representation of languageUri Hasson and Rachel Giora | pp. 302–322
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Eye movements in language and cognition: A brief introductionDaniel C. Richardson, Rick Dale and Michael J. Spivey | pp. 323–344
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Speaking for the wordless: Methods for studying the foundations of cognitive linguistics in infantsAmanda Brandone, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Rachel Pulverman, Mandy J. Maguire, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Shannon M. Pruden | pp. 345–366
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Experimental study of first and second language morphological processingKira Gor | pp. 367–398
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V. Neural approaches
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Electrifying results: ERP data and cognitive linguisticsSeana Coulson | pp. 400–423
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Bridging language with the rest of cognition: Computational, algorithmic and neurobiological issues and methodsShimon Edelman | pp. 424–445
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Index | pp. 446–452
“This book is indispensable for all researchers, whatever their discipline, working on language and cognition. Monica Gonzalez-Marquez has performed a great service for the research community.”
Chris Sinha, University of Portsmouth, England
“The first single volume collection of its kind. Methods in Cognitive Linguistics provides an indispensable overview of the state of the art and new directions, bringing together some of the most influential and innovative scholars working in the field today. This represents indispensable reading for students and established scholars alike, and will be required reading on courses I teach in cognitive linguistics.”
Professor Vyvyan Evans, author of The Structure of Time, and co-author of Cognitive Linguistics: An Introduction.
“For cognitive linguistics to move beyond the tradition of relying on researchers' intuitions, and to learn how language use provides clues about cognitive processes (of non-linguists, too!), we need more explicit articulations of research methods. This book makes a huge contribution toward that goal.”
Alan Cienki
“The most remarkable thing about MCL is that none of these contributions would have been as powerful if they were scattered in seperate issues of discipline-specific journals. Yet together they send one startling message: Let's five each other a hand, for together we cab leap over chasms!”
Zhuo Jing-Schmidt, University of Oregon, in Cognitive Linguistics, Vol. 21:1 (2010)
“I wish someone would have handed me a book like this one on my first day in graduate school. It would have made a world of a difference. Of course, graduate students are not the only ones who stand to benefit from reading it. The book draws together a wide range of approaches within cognitive linguistics, so that it will prove fruitful for anyone wanting to explore new or unfamiliar areas in this field. This book is sure to get the recognition it deserves. It is well-written, well-edited, and timely.”
Martin Hilpert,
ICSI Berkeley,in ICLA-review, February 2008
“The value of this book is enormous, it is, essentially, a highly practical, yet sophisticated, handbook. [...] This is probably the first introduction to many of the methodologies available to linguists taking the emperical study of language seriously. No matter what your interest in language is, this book will quite probably have something to offer.”
Javier Valenzuela, University of Murcia, in the Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, Vol. 6 (2008)
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CF: Linguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General