Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2 Using neurolinguistic and neuropsychological evidences to address theoretical questions in functional linguistics

3 Keystroke logging data: What can it tell us about mode and written language production?

4 The influence of experiential aspects of meaning on the translation process

5 On the process of choosing in translational logogenesis

6 Lexical Cohesion: Dimensions and Linguistic Properties of Chains in English and German

7 The cohesive landscape of English of-NPs: an empirical, expression-centred approach to coherence

8 Challenging instantiation in modelling movement-based multimodal communication

9 Epilogue

About the Author

Elissa Asp is Professor of English and Linguistics at Saint Mary’s University, Canada. Ongoing research addresses: (a) discourse correlates of dementias – especially neurodegenerative diseases associated with ageing; (b) magnetoencephalography (MEG) studies of neurocognitive networks supporting language production; and (c) the theoretical implications of (a) and (b) for models of language.

Michelle Aldridge is a Reader in the Centre for Language and Communication Research (ENCAP) at Cardiff University. Her research focus is the linguistic experiences of vulnerable people (children, rape victims and people with a disability) within the legal and/or educational setting. Her data are typically analysed within a Cognitive Linguistics framework.