Corpora in Cognitive Linguistics
Title | Corpora in Cognitive Linguistics PDF eBook |
Author | Stefan Th. Gries |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2008-08-22 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110197707 |
Cognitive Linguistics, the branch of linguistics that tries to "make one's account of human language accord with what is generally known about the mind and the brain," has become one of the most flourishing fields of contemporary linguistics. The chapters address many classic topics of Cognitive Linguistics. These topics include studies on the semantics of specific words (including polysemy and synonymy) as well as semantic characteristics of particular syntactic patterns / constructions (including constructional synonymy and the schematicity of constructions), the analysis of causatives, transitivity, and image-schematic aspects of posture verbs. The key characteristic of this volume is that all papers adopt the methodological perspective of Corpus Linguistics, the rapidly evolving branch of linguistics based on the computerized analysis of language used in authentic settings. Thus, the contributions do not only all provide various new insights in their respective fields, they also introduce new data as well as new corpus-based and quantitative methods of analysis. On the basis of their findings, the authors discuss both theoretical implications going well beyond the singular topics of the studies and show how the discipline of Cognitive Linguistics can benefit from the rigorous analysis of naturally-occurring language. The languages which are investigated are English, German, Dutch, and Russian, and the data come from a variety of different corpora. As such, the present volume will be of interest to a wide range of scholars with many different foci and interests and should pave the way for further integration of usage-based techniques of analysis within this exciting paradigm.
Ten Lectures on Corpora and Cognitive Linguistics
Title | Ten Lectures on Corpora and Cognitive Linguistics PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Barlow |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2022-12-28 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9004529772 |
The volume consists of ten studies that involve the use of corpus data relevant to research within a Cognitive Linguistics framework.
Language, Corpora and Cognition
Title | Language, Corpora and Cognition PDF eBook |
Author | Piotr Pęzik |
Publisher | Lodz Studies in Language |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Cognitive grammar |
ISBN | 9783631663363 |
This book focuses on matching theoretical predictions about language and cognition against empirical language data. The contributions use corpus linguistics methodology for their analysis. The contributors evaluate a variety of themes from combining syntax, semantics, discourse, terminology, to cognitive linguistics with the techniques and quantitative methods related to linguistic data processing.
Ten Lectures on Quantitative Approaches in Cognitive Linguistics
Title | Ten Lectures on Quantitative Approaches in Cognitive Linguistics PDF eBook |
Author | Stefan Th. Gries |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2017-03-06 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9004336222 |
This series of lectures provides an overview of the author's work on quantitative applications in cognitive linguistics by discussing a wide range of studies involving corpus-linguistic as well as experimental work. After a discussion of how corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and psycholinguistics relate to each other, the author discusses empirical and statistical studies of a wide variety of phenomena including morphophonology (morphological blends and alliteration effects), corpus-based cognitive semantics, frequency and association at the syntax-lexis interface. The book concludes with chapters exemplifying the role that bottom-up approaches can take, the role of statistical methods more generally, and the role of converging evidence from corpus and experimental data.The lectures for this book were given at The China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics in May 2013. In the e-book version all handouts have been made available at the back. All audio of the lectures as well as the handouts are available for free, in Open Access, here.
Corpus linguistics
Title | Corpus linguistics PDF eBook |
Author | Stefanowitsch, Anatol |
Publisher | Language Science Press |
Pages | 510 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3961102244 |
Corpora are used widely in linguistics, but not always wisely. This book attempts to frame corpus linguistics systematically as a variant of the observational method. The first part introduces the reader to the general methodological discussions surrounding corpus data as well as the practice of doing corpus linguistics, including issues such as the scientific research cycle, research design, extraction of corpus data and statistical evaluation. The second part consists of a number of case studies from the main areas of corpus linguistics (lexical associations, morphology, grammar, text and metaphor), surveying the range of issues studied in corpus linguistics while at the same time showing how they fit into the methodology outlined in the first part.
Ten Lectures on Corpus Linguistics with R
Title | Ten Lectures on Corpus Linguistics with R PDF eBook |
Author | Stefan Th. Gries |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2019-11-26 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9004410341 |
Stefan Th. Gries provides an overview on how quantitative corpus methods can provide insights to cognitive/usage-based linguistics and selected psycholinguistic questions as well as introductory examples of how to use R for such research.
Methods in Cognitive Linguistics
Title | Methods in Cognitive Linguistics PDF eBook |
Author | Monica Gonzalez-Marquez |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 482 |
Release | 2007-06-28 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027292493 |
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.