Cognitive Linguistics: Current Applications and Future Perspectives edited by Gitte Kristiansen Michel Achard Rene Dirven Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibanez Mouton de Gruyter Berlin • New York Table of contents Acknowledgements v List of contributors ix Introduction: Cognitive Linguistics: Current applications and future perspectives 1 Gitte Kristiansen, Michel Achard, Rene Dirven and Francisco J. Ruiz de Mendoza Ibanez Part one: The cognitive base Methodology in Cognitive Linguistics 21 Dirk Geeraerts Polysemy and the lexicon 51 John R. Taylor Cognitive approaches to grammar 81 Cristiano Broccias Part two: The conceptual leap Three dogmas of embodiment: Cognitive linguistics as a cognitive science 119 Tim Rohrer Metonymy as a usage event 147 Klaus-Uwe Panther Conceptual blending in thought, rhetoric, and ideology 187 Seana Coulson Part three: The psychological basis The contested impact of cognitive linguistic research on the psycholinguistics of metaphor understanding 211 Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. and Marcus Perlman X IS LIKE Y: The emergence of similarity mappings in children's early speech and gesture 229 Seyda Ozcahskan and Susan Goldin-Meadow viii Table of contents Part four: Go, tell it on the mountain Energy through fusion at last: Synergies in cognitive anthropology and cognitive linguistics 263 Gary B. Palmer Cognitive linguistic applications in second or foreign language instruction: rationale, proposals, and evaluation 305 Frank Boers and Seth Lindstromberg Part five: Verbal and beyond: Vision and imagination Visual communication: Signed language and cognition 359 Terry Janzen Non-verbal and multimodal metaphor in a cognitivist framework: Agendas for research 379 Charles Forceville The fall of the wall between literary studies and linguistics: Cognitive poetics 403 Margaret H. Freeman Part six: Virtual reality as a new experience Artificial intelligence, figurative language and cognitive linguistics 431 John A. Barnden Computability as a test on linguistics theories 461 Tony Veale Author index 485 Subject index 496.