"Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives" is an up-to-date survey of recent research in Cognitive Linguistics and its applications by prominent researchers. The volume brings together generally accessible syntheses and special studies of Cognitive Linguistics strands in a sizable format and is thus an asset not only to the cognitive linguistics community, but also to neighbouring disciplines and linguists in general. The volume covers a wide range of fields and combines wide accessibility with a highly specific information value.

Key Features * An excellent source for the study of Applied Cognitive Linguistics, one of the most popular and fastest growing areas in linguistics. * Authoritative and detailed survey articles by leading scholars in the field. * Accessible to a general audience, yet also characterized by a highly specific information value.

Contents

Introduction: Cognitive Linguistics: Current applications and future perspectives Gitte Kristiansen, Michel Achard, René Dirven and Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez

Part one: The cognitive base

Methodology in Cognitive Linguistics Dirk Geeraerts

Polysemy and the lexicon John R. Taylor

Cognitive approaches to grammar Cristiano Broccias

Part two: The conceptual leap

Three dogmas of embodiment: Cognitive linguistics as a cognitive science Tim Rohrer

Metonymy as a usage event Klaus-Uwe Panther

Conceptual blending in thought, rhetoric, and ideology Seana Coulson

Part three: The psychological basis

The contested impact of cognitive linguistic research on the psycholinguistics of metaphor understanding Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. and Marcus Perlman

X is like Y: The emergence of similarity mappings in children’s early speech and gesture Seyda Özcalskan and Susan Goldin-Meadow

Part four: Go, tell it on the mountain

Energy through fusion at last: Synergies in cognitive anthropology and cognitive linguistics Gary B. Palmer

Cognitive linguistic applications in second or foreign language instruction: rationale, proposals, and evaluation Frank Boers and Seth Lindstromberg

Part five: Verbal and beyond: Vision and imagination

Visual communication: Signed language and cognition Terry Janzen

Non-verbal and multimodal metaphor in a cognitivist framework:Agendas for research Charles Forceville

The fall of the wall between literary studies and linguistics: Cognitive poetics Margaret H. Freeman

Part six: Virtual reality as a new experience

Artificial intelligence, figurative language and cognitive linguistics John A. Barnden

Computability as a test on linguistics theories Tony Veale