Xu Wen is Professor of Linguistics and Dean of College of International Studies at Southwest University, China.

John R. Taylor was senior lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics

Contents

List of figures

List of tables

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Introduction

Cognitive linguistics: Retrospect and prospect

Xu Wen and John R. Taylor

Part I

Basic theories and hypotheses

1 Cognitive semantics

Dirk Geeraerts

2 Cognitive grammar

Cristiano Broccias

3 Construction grammar and frame semantics

Hans C. Boas

4 Multimodal construction grammar: From multimodal constructs to multimodal constructions

Thomas Hoffman

5 Natural semantic metalanguage

Cliff Goddard

6 Word grammar

Richard Hudson

7 The creativity of negation

Rachel Gioral

Part II

Central topics in cognitive linguistics

8 Embodiment

Xu Wen and Canzhong Jiang

9 Image schemas

Dennis Tay

10 Categorization

Xu Wen and Zhengling Fu

11 Standard and extended conceptual metaphor theory

Zoltan Kövecses

12 Conceptual Metonymy Theory revisited: some definitional and taxonomic issues

Ruiz de Mendoza

13 Force Dynamics

Walter De Mulder

14 Construal

Zeki Hamawand

15 Concepts and conceptualization

Canzhong Jiang and Kun Yang

16 Iconicity

Günter Radden

17 Motivation

Klaus-Uwe Panther

18 Grammaticalization, lexicalization, and constructionalization

Renata Enghels

19 Intersubjectivity and intersubjectification

Lieselotte Brems

20 Grounding

Frank Brisard

21 Humor and cognitive linguistics

Salvatore Attardo

22 Linguistic synaesthesia

Francesca Strik Lievers, Chu-Ren Huang and Jiajuan Xiong

Part III

Interface between cognitive linguistics and other fields or disciplines

23 Culture in language and cognition

Chris Sinha

24 Cognitive linguistics and figurative language

Herbert L. Colston

25 Qualifying conceptualizations

Jan Nuyts

26 Cognitive pragmatics

Marco Mazzone

27 Cognitive poetics and the problem of metaphor

Jeroen Vandaele

28 Cognitive linguistics and discourse studies

Ulrike Schröder

29 Signed languages and cognitive linguistics

Sherman Wilcox and Rocío Martínez

30 Cognitive linguistics and gesture

Julius Hassemer and Vito Evola

31 Cognitive linguistics and translation studies

Kairong Xiao

32 Cognitive linguistics and language pedagogy

Dilin Liu and Tzung-Hung Tsai

33 Cognitive linguistics and second language acquisition

Han Luo

34 Cognitive linguistics and digital lexicography

Esra' Moustafa Abdelzaher

35 Cognitive linguistics and phytonymic lexicon

Nataliya Panasenko

36 Cognitive linguistics and proverbs

Sadia Belkhir

Part IV

New directions in cognitive linguistics

37 Cognitive neuroscience of language

Rutvik H. Desai and Nicholas Riccardi

38 Cognitive linguistics and language evolution

Gábor Gy¿ri

39 Diachronic construction grammar

Dirk Noël and Timothy Colleman

40 Multimodality

Charles J. Forceville

41 Foundational Issues in Biolinguistics

Kleanthes K. Grohmann and Maria Kambanaros

42 Thinking on behalf of the world: Radical embodied ecolinguistics

Sune Vork Steffensen and Stephen J. Cowley

43 Cognitive linguistics and linguistic typology

Yuzhi Shi

Index