Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication

Download or read book Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication written by Wei-lun Lu and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-08-16 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies in the present volume illustrate the current state-of-the-art in the corpus-based approach in cognitive linguistics, which seeks to motivate linguistic phenomena through the combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis. By focusing on language use in different contexts from a variety of perspectives, each of the contributions in this volume presents its own unique take on the intertwined relationship between language, thought, and communication. Thus, each article shows how a combination of quantitative and qualitative analytical techniques helps shed new light on old issues, reflecting the usage-based nature of cognitive linguistics and illustrating the explanatory adequacy of corpus-based methods. Originally published as special issue of Review of Cognitive Linguistics 17:1 (2019).