A comprehensive and critical A-Z guide to the main terms and concepts used in the study of language and linguistics, definitions featured include: terms used in grammatical analysis, branches of linguistics from semantics to neurolinguistics, approaches used in studying language from critical discourse analysis to systemic linguistics, linguistic phenomena from code-switching to conversational implicature and language varieties from pidgin to standard language.
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.
This volume is a compilation of articles by international scholars active in the field of English historical linguistics. The majority of the studies are revised versions of papers presented at a workshop on “Clausal Connectives in the History of English” at the 13th International Conference of English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL) in Vienna on the 23–28 August 2004.
Roman Jakobson, one of the most important thinkers of our century, was best known for his role in the rise and spread of the structuralist approach to linguistics and literature. His formative years with the Russian Futurists and subsequent involvement in the Moscow and Prague Linguistic Circles (which he co-founded) resulted in a lifelong devotion to fundamental change in both literary theory and linguistics. In bringing each to bear upon the other, he enlivened both disciplines; if a literary work was to him a linguistic fact, it was also a semiotic phenomenon -part of the entire universe of signs.
Corpus Linguistics has quickly established itself as the leading undergraduate course book in the subject. This second edition takes full account of the latest developments in this rapidly changing field, making this book the most up-to-date and comprehensive textbook available. It gives a step-by-step introduction to what a corpus is, how corpora are constructed, and what can be done with them.
