Table of contents Contributors VIII Acknowledgements IX Foreword XI Leonard Talmy Introduction:The many faces of research in Cognitive Linguistics XXII The Editors I.Methods and motivations Why cognitive linguists should care more about empirical methods 2 Raymond W.Gibbs,Jr. They actually said that?An introduction to working with usage data through discourse and corpus analysis 9 Irene Mittelberg,Thomas A.Farmer and Linda R.Waugh An introduction to experimental methods for language researchers 53 Monica Gonzalez-Marquez,Raymond B.Becker and James E.Cutting Inferential statistics in the context of empirical cognitive linguistics 87 Rafael Nunez II.Corpus and discourse analysis Multiple empirical approaches to a complex analysis of discourse 120 Linda R.Waugh,Bonnie Fonseca-Greber,Caroline Vickers and Betil Eroz A case for a cognitive corpus linguistics 149 Stefan Grondelaers,Dirk Geeraerts and Dirk Speelman III.Sign language and gesture Empirical methods in signed language research 171 Sherman Wilcox and Jill P.Morford Looking at space to study mental spaces:Co-speech gesture as a crucial data source in cognitive linguistics 201 Eve SweetserJB[v.20020404] Prn:13/04/2007; 13:32 F: HCP18CO.tex / p.1 (47-107) Table of contents Contributors viii Acknowledgements ix Foreword xi Leonard Talmy Introduction: The many faces of research in Cognitive Linguistics xxii The Editors I. Methods and motivations Why cognitive linguists should care more about empirical methods 2 Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. They actually said that? An introduction to working with usage data through discourse and corpus analysis 19 Irene Mittelberg, Thomas A. Farmer and Linda R. Waugh An introduction to experimental methods for language researchers 53 Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Raymond B. Becker and James E. Cutting Inferential statistics in the context of empirical cognitive linguistics 87 Rafael Núñez II. Corpus and discourse analysis Multiple empirical approaches to a complex analysis of discourse 120 Linda R. Waugh, Bonnie Fonseca-Greber, Caroline Vickers and Betil Eröz A case for a cognitive corpus linguistics 149 Stefan Grondelaers, Dirk Geeraerts and Dirk Speelman III. Sign language and gesture Empirical methods in signed language research 171 Sherman Wilcox and Jill P. Morford Looking at space to study mental spaces: Co-speech gesture as a crucial data source in cognitive linguistics 201 Eve Sweetser