Table of contents
Contributorsviii
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The many faces of research in Cognitive Linguistics
I. 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
II. Corpus and discourse analysis
Multiple empirical approaches to a complex analysis of discourse
A case for a cognitive corpus linguistics
III. Sign language and gesture
Empirical methods in signed language research
Looking at space to study mental spaces: Co-speech gesture as a crucial data source in cognitive linguistics
Methodology for multimodality: One way of working with speech and gesture data
IV. 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: A brief introduction
Speaking for the wordless: Methods for studying the foundations of cognitive linguistics in infants
Experimental study of first and second language morphological processing
V. Neural approaches
Electrifying results: ERP data and cognitive linguistics
Bridging language with the rest of cognition: Computational, algorithmic and neurobiological issues and methods
Index
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