Language, Corpora and Cognition

Product Description
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.
Review
«The edited volume brings together a variety of papers from diverse corpus linguistic methodologies on various aspects of cognitive science and cognitive linguistics. As the introduction states, it is a valuable contribution and step forward in the understanding of how the use of empirical data can inform theoretical predictions about the relationship between language and cognition.»
(Franka Kermer, Linguist List Dec. 2017)

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About the Author
Piotr Pęzik is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Institute of English Studies, University of Łódź. He has authored publications in the areas of corpus and computational linguistics, information extraction and information retrieval. His areas of interest also include corpus-based phraseology and the wider perspective of prefabrication and compositionality in language.

Jacek Tadeusz Waliński is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Institute of English Studies, University of Łódź. His research concentrates on interactions between language and cognition in the mental processing of the socio-cultural reality. His research interests also include applications of cognitive corpus linguistics for foreign language teaching and translation.