Backmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Introduction Cognitive Linguistics: Current applications and future perspectives 1
4. Part one: The cognitive base
5. Methodology in Cognitive Linguistics 21
6. Polysemy and the lexicon 51
7. Cognitive approaches to grammar 81
8. Part two: The conceptual leap
9. Three dogmas of embodiment: Cognitive linguistics as a cognitive science 119
10. Metonymy as a usage event 147
11. Conceptual blending in thought, rhetoric, and ideology 187
12. Part three: The psychological basis
13. The contested impact of cognitive linguistic research on the psycholinguistics of metaphor understanding 211
14. X IS LIKE Y: The emergence of similarity mappings in children s early speech and gesture 229
15. Part four: Go, tell it on the mountain
16. Energy through fusion at last: Synergies in cognitive anthropology and cognitive linguistics 263
17. Cognitive linguistic applications in second or foreign language instruction: rationale, proposals, and evaluation 305
18. Part five: Verbal and beyond: Vision and imagination
19. Visual communication: Signed language and cognition 359
20. Non-verbal and multimodal metaphor in a cognitivist framework: Agendas for research 379
21. The fall of the wall between literary studies and linguistics: Cognitive poetics 403
22. Part six: Virtual reality as a new experience
23. Artificial intelligence, figurative language and cognitive linguistics 431
24. Computability as a test on linguistics theories 461
25. Backmatter 485