Andre Luiz Souza, M.A

The University of Texas at Austin

Other Research Interests

I have very diverse research interests within both Psychology and Linguistics. As a Linguistics undergraduate student, I was mainly interested in theoretical Cognitive Linguistics. I am very sympathetic with the idea that (1) language is not an autonomous cognitive faculty and (2) language knowledge emerges from use — usage-based linguistics.

As part of the Cognitive Linguistics movement, the Construction Grammars have also called my attention in the last five years. Despite of the differences between the various types of Construction Grammars (e.g. Radical Construction Grammar; Cognitive Grammar, etc.), I like the assumption that grammatical patterns also reflect processes of conceptualizations.

Recently, the Cognitive Linguistics movement has experienced a rather radical change in focus: the majority of the research is now much more experimentally-oriented; and researchers have been using a variety of quantitative methods to collect and analyze linguistic data. Thus, I have a special interest in works that explore different quantitative methods to analyze both experimental and corpus-based data.

Outside the realm of linguistics, I have special scientific interest in:

1) Theoretical and Mathematical Statistics

2) Embodied Cognition and Dynamic Systems

3) Statistical Packages (R, Matlab, Python)

 

As a totally outside interest, I am very interested in Minority Literature. :-)