6. In search of meaning

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Bibliographical information xi
5. 1. Introduction 1
6. Cultural models and conceptual mappings
7. 2. When does cognitive linguistics become cultural? 13
8. 3. Purple persuasion 47
9. 4. Depicting fictive motion in drawings 67
10. 5. Discourse, gesture, and mental spaces manoeuvers 87
11. Computational models and conceptual mappings
12. 6. In search of meaning 109
13. 7. Grammar and language production 139
14. 8. Word recognition and word merger 169
15. Linguistic components and conceptual mappings
16. 9. Verbal explication and the place of NSM semantics in cognitive linguistics 189
17. 10. “How do you know she’s a woman?” 219
18. 11. Cross-linguistic polysemy in tactile verbs 235
19. 12. How experience structures the conceptualization of causality 255
20. 13. Subjective predicates in Japanese 271
21. 14. Figure, ground and connexity 293
22. 15. Discourse organization and coherence 305
23. Name Index 325
24. Subject Index 329