Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Introduction: Cognitive Linguistics: Current applications and future perspectives
Gitte Kristiansen, Michel Achard, Rene Dirven and Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibanez
Part one: The cognitive base
Methodology in Cognitive Linguistics
Polysemy and the lexicon
Cognitive approaches to grammar
Part two: The conceptual leap
Three dogmas of embodiment: Cognitive linguistics as a cognitive science
Metonymy as a usage event
Conceptual blending in thought, rhetoric, and ideology
Part three: The psychological basis
The contested impact of cognitive linguistic research on the psycholinguistics of metaphor understanding
X IS LIKE Y: The emergence of similarity mappings in children's early speech and gesture
Part four: Go, tell it on the mountain
Energy through fusion at last: Synergies in cognitive anthropology and cognitive linguistics
Cognitive linguistic applications in second or foreign language instruction: rationale, proposals, and evaluation
Part five: Verbal and beyond: Vision and imagination
Visual communication: Signed language and cognition
Non-verbal and multimodal metaphor in a cognitivist framework:Agendas for research
The fall of the wall between literary studies and linguistics:Cognitive poetics
Part six: Virtual reality as a new experience
Artificial intelligence, figurative language and cognitive linguistics
Computability as a test on linguistics theories
Author index
Subject index
