Cognitive Linguistics Books

New and Published Books

1. Handbook of Automated Essay Evaluation

   Current Applications and New Directions

   Edited by Mark D. Shermis, Jill Burstein

   This comprehensive, interdisciplinary handbook reviews the latest methods and technologies used in automated essay evaluation (AEE) methods and technologies. Highlights include the latest in the evaluation of performance-based writing assessments and recent advances in the teaching of writing,...

   Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge
2. Allomorphy in Inflexion (Routledge Revivals)

   By Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1987, this book broke new ground in research on inflectional morphology. Drawing on evidence from a wide variety of languages, it shows that this is not just a phenomenon left over from obsolete phonological processes but a subject deserving of respect in its own right. The book...

   Published February 7th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Equilibrium of Human Syntax

   Symmetries in the Brain

   By Andrea Moro

   Series: Routledge Leading Linguists

   This book assembles a collection of papers in two different domains: formal syntax and neurolinguistics. Here Moro provides evidence that the two fields are becoming more and more interconnected and that the new fascinating empirical questions and results in the latter field cannot be obtained...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
4. Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion

   An Exploration of the Oceanic Mind

   By Michael Burke

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Stylistics

   This work seeks to chart what happens in the embodied minds of engaged readers when they read literature. Despite the recent stylistic, linguistic, and cognitive advances that have been made in text-processing methodology and practice, very little is known about this cultural-cognitive process and...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
5. Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Learning

   Theoretical Basics and Experimental Evidence

   By Andrea Tyler

   This book illustrates the ways that cognitive linguistics, a relatively new paradigm in language studies, can illuminate and facilitate language research and teaching. The first part of the book introduces the basics of cognitive linguistic theory in a way that is geared toward second language...

   Published March 7th 2012 by Routledge
6. Multimodality, Cognition, and Experimental Literature

   By Alison Gibbons

   Series: Routledge Studies in Multimodality

   Since the turn of the millennium, there has seen an increase in the inclusion of typography, graphics and illustration in fiction. This book engages with visual and multimodal devices in twenty-first century literature, exploring canonical authors like Mark Z. Danielewski and Jonathan Safran Foer...

   Published October 24th 2011 by Routledge
7. Cognitive Linguistics

   Edited by Adele Goldberg

   Series: Critical Concepts in Linguistics

   This new addition to Routledge’s Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Linguistics, brings together the very best and most influential scholarly research on cognitive linguistics. Cognitive Linguistics is a broad approach to language that places psychological reality at the top of the list of...

   Published June 13th 2011 by Routledge
8. Philosophy of Language

   Edited by A. P. Martinich

   Series: Critical Concepts in Philosophy

   What do ‘meaning’ and ‘truth’ mean? And how are they situated in the concrete practices of linguistic communication? What is the relationship between words and the world? How—with words—can people do such varied things as marry, inaugurate a president, and declare a country’s independence? How is...

   Published November 13th 2008 by Routledge
9. Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition

   Edited by Peter Robinson, Nick C. Ellis

   This cutting-edge volume describes the implications of Cognitive Linguistics for the study of second language acquisition (SLA). The first two sections identify theoretical and empirical strands of Cognitive Linguistics, presenting them as a coherent whole. The third section discusses the relevance...

   Published February 24th 2008 by Routledge
10. Cognitive Linguistics

    An Introduction

    By Vyvyan Evans, Melanie Green

    A general introduction to the area of theoretical linguistics known as cognitive linguistics, this textbook provides up-to-date coverage of all areas of the field, including recent developments within cognitive semantics (such as Primary Metaphor Theory, Conceptual Blending Theory, and Principled...

    Published March 2nd 2006 by Routledge