10. Blending in language and communication

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. I. The Cognitive foundations of language
5. 1. Embodiment 10
6. 2. Attention and salience 31
7. 3. Frequency and entrenchment 53
8. 4. Categorization (without categories) 75
9. 5. Abstraction, storage and naive discriminative learning 100
10. 6. Construal 120
11. 7. Metonymy 143
12. 8. Metaphor 167
13. 9. Representing Meaning 190
14. 10. Blending in language and communication 211
15. 11. Grammar and cooperative communication 232
16. II. Overviews
17. 12. Phonology 253
18. 13. Lexical semantics 273
19. 14. Usage-based construction grammar 296
20. 15. Discourse 322
21. 16. Historical linguistics 346
22. 17. Variationist linguistics 366
23. 18. First language acquisition 389
24. 19. Second language acquisition 409
25. 20. Poetics 432
26. III. Central topics
27. 21. Semantic typology 453
28. 22. Polysemy 472
29. 23. Space 490
30. 24. Time 509
31. 25. Motion 527
32. 26. Fictive motion 546
33. 27. Prototype effects in grammar 562
34. 28. Argument structure constructions 579
35. 29. Default nonliteral interpretations The case of negation as a low-salience marker 594
36. 30. Tense, aspect and mood 616
37. 31. Grammaticalization 634
38. 32. Individual differences in grammatical knowledge 650
39. 33. Signed languages 668
40. 34. Emergentism 689
41. Indexes
42. Authors index 707
43. Subject index 711