Ten Lectures on Language as Cognition

In this book Divjak and Milin introduce the new paradigm of computational cognitive linguistics. Going beyond corpus-based and experimental approaches, they showcase how computational models anchored in theories of learning, can be used to generate and test hypotheses concerning language cognition.

About the author

Dagmar Divjak obtained her Ph.D. in 2004 from KU Leuven (Belgium). She is a Professor of Cognitive Linguistics and Language Cognition at the University of Birmingham, UK. Among other things, she is the author of Frequency in Language (2019, CUP), Editor-in-Chief of the journal Cognitive Linguistics (2018-) and Co-Editor of the Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics (Mouton De Gruyter, 2015/2019).

Petar Milin obtained his Ph.D. in 2004 from the University of Belgrade (Serbia). He is a Professor of the Psychology of Language and Language learning at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the third edition of Elsevier's Encyclopaedia of Language and Linguistics, and Consulting Editor for Methodology and Registered Reports of the journal Cognitive Linguistics (2018-).

Product details

• Authors: Dagmar Divjak, Petar Milin
• Publisher: de Gruyter Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.07.2023
• EAN: 9789004506503
• ISBN: 978-90-04-50650-3
• No. of pages: 292
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 239 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 576 g
• Series: Distinguished Lectures in Cogn
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics