Part I. The Roots of Metaphor: 1. The neural theory of metaphor George Lakoff; 2. Philosophy's debt to metaphor Mark Johnson; 3. Rethinking metaphor Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner; 4. How metaphor creates categories - quickly! Sam Glucksberg; 5. A deflationary theory of metaphors Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson; Part II. Metaphor Understanding: 6. Metaphor as structure-mapping Dedre Gentner and Brian Bowdle; 7. How the mind computes the meaning of metaphors: a simulation based on LSA Walter Kintsch; 8. Is metaphor unique? Rachel Giora; 9. Metaphor, imagination, and simulation: psycholinguistic evidence Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. and Teenie Matlock; 10. Metaphor comprehension and the brain Seana Coulson; Part III. Metaphor in Language and Culture: 11. Metaphor and talk Lynne Cameron; 12. Metaphor and education Graham Low; 13. Metaphor in literature Elena Semino and Gerard Steen; 14. Metaphor from body and culture Ning Yu; 15. Metaphor, semantics, and context Josef Stern; 16. Corpus linguistics and metaphor Alice Deignan; 17. Metaphor and poetic figures Yeshayahu Shen; Part IV. Metaphor in Reasoning and Feeling: 18. Metaphor and artificial intelligence: why they matter to each other John Barnden; 19. Conceptual metaphors, human cognition, and the nature of mathematics Rafael Nunez; 20. What is the 'color' of law? Steven L. Winter; 21. Metaphor and emotion Zoltán Kövecses; 22. Putting it in context: metaphor and psychotherapy Linda M. McMullen; 23. Metaphor and psychoanalysis Antal F. Borbely; 24. Crossing the senses in metaphorical language Cristina Cacciari; Part V. Metaphor in Nonverbal Expression: 25. Metaphor and art John M. Kennedy; 26. Metaphor in pictures and multimodal representations Charles Forceville; 27. Metaphor, gesture, and thought Alan Cienki and Cornelia Mueller; 28. Metaphor and music Lawrence Zbikowski.