Methods in Cognitive Linguistics: 18

The first single volume collection of its kind. Methods in Cognitive Linguistics provides an indispensable overview of the state of the art and new directions, bringing together some of the most influential and innovative scholars working in the field today. This represents indispensable reading for students and established scholars alike, and will be required reading on courses I teach in cognitive linguistics. — Professor Vyvyan Evans, author of The Structure of Time, and co-author of Cognitive Linguistics: An Introduction.

For cognitive linguistics to move beyond the tradition of relying on researchers’ intuitions, and to learn how language use provides clues about cognitive processes (of non-linguists, too!), we need more explicit articulations of research methods. This book makes a huge contribution toward that goal. — Alan Cienki

The most remarkable thing about MCL is that none of these contributions would have been as powerful if they were scattered in seperate issues of discipline-specific journals. Yet together they send one startling message: Let’s five each other a hand, for together we cab leap over chasms! — Zhuo Jing-Schmidt, University of Oregon, in Cognitive Linguistics, Vol. 21:1 (2010)

I wish someone would have handed me a book like this one on my first day in graduate school. It would have made a world of a difference. Of course, graduate students are not the only ones who stand to benefit from reading it. The book draws together a wide range of approaches within cognitive linguistics, so that it will prove fruitful for anyone wanting to explore new or unfamiliar areas in this field. This book is sure to get the recognition it deserves. It is well-written, well-edited, and timely. — Martin Hilpert, ICSI Berkeley,in ICLA-review, February 2008

The value of this book is enormous, it is, essentially, a highly practical, yet sophisticated, handbook. […] This is probably the first introduction to many of the methodologies available to linguists taking the emperical study of language seriously. No matter what your interest in language is, this book will quite probably have something to offer. — Javier Valenzuela, University of Murcia, in the Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, Vol. 6 (2008)