Book Title

Data Analytics in Cognitive Linguistics: Methods and Insights

Editors

Dennis Tay (Department of English and Communication), Molly Xie Pan

Publisher

Mouton De Gruyter

Year of Publication

2022

ISBN

9783110687156

Introduction

Contemporary data analytics involves extracting insights from data and translating them into action. With its turn towards empirical methods and convergent data sources, cognitive linguistics is a fertile context for data analytics. There are key differences between data analytics and statistical analysis as typically conceived. Though the former requires the latter, it emphasizes the role of domain-specific knowledge. Statistical analysis also tends to be associated with preconceived hypotheses and controlled data. Data analytics, on the other hand, can help explore unstructured datasets and inspire emergent questions.
This volume addresses two key aspects in data analytics for cognitive linguistic work. Firstly, it elaborates the bottom-up guiding role of data analytics in the research trajectory, and how it helps to formulate and refine questions. Secondly, it shows how data analytics can suggest concrete courses of research-based action, which is crucial for cognitive linguistics to be truly applied. The papers in this volume impart various data analytic methods and report empirical studies across different areas of research and application. They aim to benefit new and experienced researchers alike.

Content

Dennis Tay, Molly Xie Pan
Data analytics in cognitive linguistics - 1

Bodo Winter
Mapping the landscape of exploratory and confirmatory data analysis in
linguistics - 13

Dennis Tay
Time series analysis with python - 49

Matteo Fuoli
Structural equation modeling in R: A practical introduction for
linguists - 75

Mariana Montes, Kris Heylen
Visualizing distributional semantics - 103

Xiaoyu Tian, Weiwei Zhang, Dirk Speelman
Lectal variation in Chinese analytic causative constructions: What trees
can and cannot tell us - 137

Molly Xie Pan
Personification metaphors in Chinese video ads: Insights from data
analytics - 169

Han Qiu, Dennis Tay
The interaction between metaphor use and psychological states:
A mix-method analysis of trauma talk in the Chinese context - 197

Jane Dilkes
Prospecting for metaphors in a large text corpus: Combining
unsupervised and supervised machine learning approaches - 229

Jonathan Dunn
Cognitive linguistics meets computational linguistics: Construction
grammar, dialectology, and linguistic diversity - 273

Karlien Franco
What Cognitive Linguistics can learn from dialectology
(and vice versa) - 309

Index - 345

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