Eye Tracking in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism provides foundational
knowledge and hands-on advice for designing, conducting, and analysing eye-tracking …

This accessible introduction to multimodality illuminates the potential of multimodal research
for understanding the ways in which people communicate. Readers will become familiar …

A novel cognitive theory of semantics that proposes that the meanings of words can be
described in terms of geometric structures. In The Geometry of Meaning, Peter Gärdenfors …

This is the first full study of how people refer to entities in natural discourse. It contributes to
the understanding of both linguistic diversity and the cognitive underpinnings of language …

In a naturalistic newspaper reading study, two pairs of information graphics have been
designed to study the effects of (a) the spatial contiguity principle and (b) the dual scripting …

Over the past two decades or so, two strands of discourse studies have emerged and gained
considerable momentum in semiotics and applied linguistics, media and cultural studies …

This chapter discusses the use of eye tracking to assess cognitive and metacognitive
processes and cognitive load in computer-based learning environments. Benefits of eye …

Current debate in mental imagery research revolves around the perceptual and cognitive
role of eye movements to “nothing”(Ferreira, Apel, & Henderson, 2008; Richardson …

Analysing language data systematically and looking closely at how people formulate their
thoughts can reveal astonishing insights about the human mind. Without presupposing …

This chapter introduces the transdisciplinary research movement of critical discourse
analysis (CDA) beginning with its definition and recent examples of CDA work. In addition …