Methods in cognitive linguistics / edited by Monica Gonzalez-Marquez ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gonzalez-Marquez, Monica.

Series:

Human cognitive processing ; v. 18.

Human cognitive processing, 1387-6724 ; v. 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive grammar--Research--Methodology.

Cognitive grammar.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Research--Methodology.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 452 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Methods in Cognitive Linguistics

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

dedication page

Table of contents

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword

1. Introduction

2. Introspection

2.1. First condition of attending

2.2. Second condition of attending

2.3. Third condition of attending

2.4. Profile of introspection

3. Audio- and videographic analysis

4. Corpus analysis

5. Experimental method

References

Introduction

2. Volume organization

2.1. Methods and motivations

2.2. Corpus and discourse analysis

2.3. Sign language and gesture

2.4. Behavioral experiments

2.5. Neural approaches

I. Methods and motivations

Why cognitive linguists should care more about empirical methods

2. The problem with introspection

3. Do cognitive linguists use empirical methods?

4. Challenges for cognitive linguistics

5. Examples of relevant methods

5.1. Mental imagery

5.2. Context-sensitive judgments about metaphorical meaning

5.3. Embodied intuitions and metaphorical inferences

5.4. Not all methods work!

6. Bodily movement and metaphor comprehension

7. Conclusion: Cognitive linguists need not do experiments

They actually said that?

2. Language, cognition, and social interaction: Cognitive-functionalist approaches to discourse

2.1. Emergent Grammar

2.2. Discourse and Grammar

2.3. Social Interaction and Grammar

2.4. Different degrees of contextualization: Discourse pragmatics and ethnography

2.5. Language and the body: Multimodal communication and sign language discourse

2.6. Mediated situatedness: A look at recent accounts of metaphor in (public) written discourse

3. Introduction to corpus-based approaches

3.1. Corpus-based research for the cognitive linguist.

3.2. Terminology

3.3. Annotated list of popular corpora, plus a brief caveat

3.4. Summary

4. Concluding remarks

An introduction to experimental methods for language researchers

2. Experimenting with experimentation

3. Reading the research article

3.1. Title

3.2. Authors and affiliations

3.3. Place of publication

3.4. Year of publication

3.5. Abstract

3.6. Introduction

3.7. Methods

3.8. Results

3.9. Discussion

3.10. References

4. Other types of articles

5. The scientific method

6. Conducting research

6.1. Part one: The introduction - the thinking and reading steps

6.2. Part two: The practical steps

7. Then there is the rest of the planet…

7.1. Types of human groupings

7.2. Linguistic ability

8. Endemic bias in the interpretation of cognitive phenomena

8.1. The evaluative bias of language

8.2. Differentiating dichotomous variables from continuous ones

8.3. The Barnum effect

8.4. The assimilation bias

8.5. Fundamental attribution error

8.6. Correlation does not prove causation

9. Conclusion

Inferential statistics in the context of empirical cognitive linguistics

2. What counts as "empirical'' in cognitive linguistics?

3. Descriptive vs. inferential statistics

4. Variables and experiments

5. Measuring and measurement scales

5.1. Nominal scale

5.2. Ordinal measurement

5.3. Interval measurements

5.4. Ratio measurement

6. Samples and populations

7. Probabilities and the logic of hypothesis testing

8. Parametric vs. non-parametric inferential statistics

8.1. t-test, a parametric test

8.2. Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), a parametric test

8.3. chi2 (Chi-Square), a non-parametric test

9. Epilogue

Part II. Corpus and discourse analysis.

Multiple empirical approaches to a complex analysis of discourse

2. Conversation and pronouns: Linguistic approaches to discourse

3. Discourse and interactional accommodation: CCCA

4. Interactional patterns of international students: Triangulation

5. Conclusion: Discourse and cognition

A case for a Cognitive corpus linguistics

2. The case

3. Preliminary analysis

3.1. The evidence revisited: A regression analysis of four factors

3.2. Materials

3.3. Dependent and independent variables

3.4. Results and logistic regression analysis

4. Reference points and (in)accessibility markers

5. Corpus parameters of er's inaccessibility marking function

6. Conclusion

Part III. Sign language and gesture

Empirical methods in signed language research

1. Background on signed languages and cognitive linguistics

1.1. Linguistic research on signed languages

1.2. Cognitive linguistics

2. Signed language research in a cognitive linguistics framework

2.1. Iconicity

2.2. Metaphor

2.3. Mental spaces and blends

2.4. Gesture and grammaticization

2.5. Evolution of language

3. Empirical methods in signed language research

3.1. Recording and storage of signed language data

3.2. Transcription

3.3. Historical

3.4. Survey and questionnaire

3.5. Corpus

3.6. Experimental

3.7. Narrative

3.8. Multiple methods

4. Conclusion

Looking at space to study mental spaces

2. Gesture as a back door to cognition

3. Transcription

4. Gesture, iconicity and levels of abstraction

5. Gesture and levels of content

6. Gesture, viewpoint and deixis

7. Conclusions

Methodology for multimodality

1. Introduction.

2. Preliminary considerations: Motivations, subject matter, and genre

3. Equipment, physical setting, speaker activities, and videotaping

4. Assessing and editing video data

5. Discourse transcription

6. Transcribing gesture-speech synchrony

7. Physical gesture features

7.1. Hand shape and palm orientation

7.2. Location in gesture space

7.3. Movement

8. Semantic and pragmatic functions of gestures

9. Concluding remarks

Acknowledgments

Part IV. Behavioral research

Experimental methods for studying language and space

2. Acceptability ratings

2.1. Description of the method and illustrative studies

2.2. Critical design issues

2.3. Strengths and weaknesses

3. Speeded verification

3.1. Description of the method and illustrative studies

3.2. Critical design issues

3.3. Strengths and weaknesses

4. Placement tasks

4.1. Description of the method and illustrative studies

4.2. Critical design issues

4.3. Strengths and weaknesses

5. Parsing space tasks

5.1. Description of the method and illustrative studies

5.2. Critical design issues

5.3. Strengths and weaknesses

6. Production

6.1. Description of the method and illustrative studies

6.2. Critical design issues

6.3. Strengths and weaknesses

7. Combining experimental methods: Converging measures

Experimental methods for simulation semantics

1. Simulation semantics and language understanding

2. Compatibility effects

2.1. Implied object orientation and shape

2.2. The action-sentence compatibility effect

2.3. Design issues for compatibility methods

3. Interference effects

3.1. Visual interference effects

3.2. Motor interference effects

3.3. Interference or compatibility?

4. Simulation time effects

5. Neural imaging

6. Conclusions.

References

Experimental methods for studying the mental representation of language

2. Lexical decision and naming latencies

2.1. Rationale

2.2. Examples

2.3. Further considerations

3. Memory measures

3.1. Rationale

3.2. Examples

3.3. Further considerations

4. Item recognition measures

4.1. Rationale

4.2. Examples

4.3. Further considerations

5. Reading times

5.1. Rationale

5.2. Examples

5.3. Further considerations

6. Self report measures: Listing features, choosing features

6.1. Rationale

6.2. Examples

6.3. Further considerations

7. The effects of comprehension on subsequent tasks

7.1. Rationale

7.2. Examples

7.3. Further considerations

8. Summary

Eye movements in language and cognition

1. The role of eye movements in the visual system

2. The value of eye movements to cognitive psychologists

3. Perception and action

4. Cognition

5. Language

6. Eye movement methodology

6.1. Choice of eyetracker

6.2. Calibration

6.3. Display parameters

6.4. "Blind'' coding

6.5. Participant ease

6.6. Practice

7. Conclusion

Speaking for the wordless

2. The habituation paradigm

2.2. Procedure

2.3. Relevance of habituation to the study of cognitive linguistics

3. The intermodal preferential looking paradigm

3.2. Procedure

3.3. Relevance of the IPLP to the study of cognitive linguistics

4. Verb learning: A case study

4.1. The problem of verb learning

4.2. The cognitive linguistic approach to the problem of verb learning

4.3. Attention to potential verb referents in nonlinguistic events

4.4. The categorization of path and manner in motion events.

4.5. Use of universal and language-specific cues in verb learning.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612154614

9781282154612

1282154613

9789027292490

9027292493

OCLC:

237392267