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
