Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of contributors -- Introduction / Rudzka-Ostyn, Brygida -- Part I: The cognitive paradigm: Goals, frameworks, implications -- The alphabet of human thoughts / Wierzbicka, Anna -- Cognitive semantics and the history of philosophical epistemology / Geeraerts, Dirk -- From meaning to message in two theories: Cognitive and Saussurean views of the Modern Dutch demonstratives / Kirsner, Robert S. -- A functional view on prototypes / Seiler, Hansjakob -- Process linguistics: A cognitive-scientific approach to natural language understanding / Adriaens, Geert -- Requirements for a computational lexicon: a cognitive approach / Paprotté, Wolf -- Some pedagogical implications of cognitive linguistics / Taylor, John R. -- Part II: Meaning and meaning extension -- On representing and referring / Sinha, Chris -- Minimal and full definitions of meaning / Kövecses, Zoltän -- Metacognitive aspects of reference: Assessing referential correctness and success / Geiger, Richard A. -- An image-schematic constraint on metaphor / Turner, Mark -- The axiological parameter in preconceptional image schemata / Krzeszowski, Tomasz P. -- Value judgment in the metaphorization of linguistic action / Pauwels, Paul / Simon-Vandenbergen, Anne-Marie -- Part III: Lexico-syntactic phenomena -- Schematic values of the Japanese nominal particles wa and ga / Cook, Haruko Minegishi -- The meaning of (a) round: A study of an English preposition / Schulze, Rainer -- The semantics of giving in Mandarin / Newman, John -- Agentivity in cognitive grammar / Nishimura, Yoshiki -- Cases as conceptual categories: Evidence from German / Smith, Michael B. -- A cognitive account of Samoan lavea and galo verbs / Cook, Kenneth William -- "Locations", "paths" and the Cora verb / Casad, Eugene H. -- Part IV: A broader perspective: Discursive, cross-linguistic, cross-cultural -- Patterns of mobilization: A study of interaction signals in Romance / Lamiroy, Béatrice / Swiggers, Pierre -- Interaction and cognition: Speech act schemata with but and their interrelation with discourse type / Lauerbach, Gerda E. -- Syntactic, semantic and interactional prototypes: The case of left-dislocation / Geluykens, Ronald -- Scenes and frames for orders and threats / Tsohatzidis, Savas L. -- Tenses and demonstratives: Conspecific categories / Janssen, Theo A.J.M. -- Articles in translation: An exercise in cognitive linguistics / Tabakowska, Elzbieta -- What does it mean for a language to have no singular-plural distinction? Noun-verb homology and its typological implication / Ikegami, Yoshihiko -- Subject index