Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface - Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Oral Poetics and Cognitive Science -- Repetition in Homeric epic: Cognitive and linguistic perspectives -- From grammar in everyday conversation to special grammar in oral traditions: A case study of ring composition -- Metaphor as ideology -- Construction grammar and oral formulaic theory -- Frames and constructions for the study of oral poetics -- Particles as cues to structuring in Serbocroatian and early Greek epic -- The priming act in Homeric epic -- Orality, visualization, and the Historical Mind