Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface 1
4. Part I. The four-level theory of cognitive development and its applications to cognitive semantics
5. Chapter 1. An overview of the four-level theory of cognitive development 6
6. Chapter 2. Cultural-historical psychology and the cognitive view of metonymy and metaphor 21
7. Chapter 3. Cognitive style of early theoretical culture 36
8. Part II. A cultural-historical analysis of the concept of machine
9. Chapter 4. A sociocultural history of the machine metaphor 52
10. Chapter 5. The concept of machine in the philosophy of the early modern era 66
11. Part III. The sociocultural theory of lexical complexes
12. Chapter 6. The theoretical foundations, basic postulates and framework of STLC 82
13. Chapter 7. The conceptual structure of the lexical complex otkryvat ’ in STLC 96
14. Chapter 8. The conceptual structure of the lexical complex kamen ’ in STLC 136
15. Chapter 9. The conceptual structure of the lexical complex intelligencija in STLC 164
16. Chapter 10. Regularity in semantic change 198
17. Conclusion 215
18. References 219
19. Index 241