Why cognitive linguists should care more about empirical methods

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Contributors viii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Foreword xi
6. Introduction: The many faces of research in Cognitive Linguistics xxii
7. I. Methods and motivations
8. Why cognitive linguists should care more about empirical methods 2
9. They actually said that? An introduction to working with usage data through discourse and corpus analysis 19
10. An introduction to experimental methods for language researchers 53
11. Inferential statistics in the context of empirical cognitive linguistics 87
12. II. Corpus and discourse analysis
13. Multiple empirical approaches to a complex analysis of discourse 120
14. A case for a cognitive corpus linguistics 149
15. III. Sign language and gesture
16. Empirical methods in signed language research 171
17. Looking at space to study mental spaces 201
18. Methodology for multimodality 225
19. IV. Behavioral research
20. Experimental methods for studying language and space 250
21. Experimental methods for simulation semantics 277
22. Experimental methods for studying the mental representation of language 302
23. Eye movements in language and cognition 323
24. Speaking for the wordless 345
25. Experimental study of first and second language morphological processing 367
26. V. Neural approaches
27. Electrifying results 400
28. Bridging language with the rest of cognition 424
29. Index 446