In this book, Stefan Th. Gries provides an overview on how quantitative corpus methods can provide insights to cognitive/usage-based linguistics and selected psycholinguistic questions. Topics include the corpus linguistics in general, its most important methodological tools, its statistical nature, and the relation of all these topics to past and current usage-based theorizing. Central notions discussed in detail include frequency, dispersion, context, and others in a variety of applications and case studies; four practice sessions offer short introductions of how to compute various corpus statistics with the open source programming language and environment R.
Author(s): Stefan Thomas Gries
Series: Distinguished lectures in cognitive linguistics 26
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: xii+298
Contents
Note on Supplementary Material
Preface by the Series Editor
Preface by the Author
About the Author
Lecture 1 Corpus Linguistics: the (Methods of the) Field and Its Relation to Cognitive Linguistics
Lecture 2 On—and/or Against—Frequencies
Lecture 3 Frequency: Practice with R
Lecture 4 On Recency and Dispersion
Lecture 5 Dispersion: Practice with R
Lecture 6 On Association
Lecture 7 Association: Practice with R
Lecture 8 On Context
Lecture 9 Concordance, Surprisal, Entropy: Practice with R
Lecture 10 Corpus-Linguistic Applications in Cognitive/Usage-Based Explorations of Learner Language
References
About the Series Editor
Websites for Cognitive Linguistics and CIFCL Speakers
