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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 | |