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| Publisher's acknowledgements | |
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| Preface to the second edition | |
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| Typographical conventions | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Prototypes and categories | |
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| Colours, squares, birds and cups: early empirical research into lexical categories | |
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| The internal structure of categories: prototypes, attributes, family resemblances and gestalt | |
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| Context-dependence and cultural models | |
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| Levels of categorization | |
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| Basic level categories of organisms and concrete objects | |
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| Superordinate and subordinate categories | |
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| Conceptual hierarchies | |
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| Categorization and composite word forms | |
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| Basic level categories and basic experiences: actions, events, properties, states and locations | |
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| Conceptual metaphors and metonymies | |
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| Metaphors and metonymies: from figures of speech to conceptual systems | |
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| Metaphors, metonymies and the structure of emotion categories | |
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| Metaphors as a way of thinking: examples from science and politics | |
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| Thinking in metonymies: potential and limitations | |
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| Figure and ground | |
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| Figure and ground, trajector and landmark: early research into prepositions | |
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| Figure, ground and two metaphors: a cognitive explanation of simple clause patterns | |
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| Other types of prominence and cognitive processing | |
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| Frames and constructions | |
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| Frames and scripts | |
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| Event-frames and the windowing of attention | |
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| Language-specific framing and its use in narrative texts | |
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| Construction Grammar | |
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| Blending and relevance | |
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| Metaphor, metonymy and conceptual blending | |
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| Conceptual blending in linguistic analysis and description | |
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| Conceptual blending in advertising texts, riddles and jokes | |
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| Relevance: a cognitive-pragmatic phenomenon | |
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| Other issues in cognitive linguistics | |
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| Iconicity | |
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| Lexical change and prototypicality | |
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| Cognitive aspects of grammaticalization | |
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| Effects on foreign language teaching | |
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| Conclusion | |