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