The Potential of Google Search for Studies in Cognitive Corpus Linguistics

Abstract

The paper investigates the possibility to employ the Google search system as an analogue of the corpus of texts for potential use in further cognitive research of a language. The purpose of the article is to elucidate the significance of statistical data available due to the use of different operators and filters of the search system in the study of cognitive mechanisms of representation of linguistic reality in speech. Experimental observations have been made to compare the results of competing queries in Google and Russian National Corpus based on the word order variability of binomial phrases. The results obtained showed that the volume and variety of language data justifies the employment of Google for these purposes. This leads to the conclusion that these data can be considered valid as linguistic material for further interpretation in cognitive language research

Digital Technologies for Cognitive Linguistics Studies in Magistracy

“…Internet search engines have opened up new opportunities for scientists studying different aspects of language and speech. In particular, the use of search engines such as Google or Yandex allows receiving significant empirical material, which can serve as a source of study of various linguistic phenomena associated with cognitive processes (Suleymanova, 2019;Petrova, 2019).…”