Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I Discourse resources in meaning construction -- and language processing: Discourse management, speaker stance and -- perspective, cognitive constraints and participant roles -- Personal and interpersonal gesture spaces: -- Functional contrasts in language and gesture -- The role of compound pragmatic markers in the -- construction of Catalan oral narrative -- Analyzing narrative informativeness in speech and -- writing -- Usage-based and form-focused SLA: The implicit and -- explicit learning of constructions -- Perspective shifts in ASL narratives: The problem -- of clause structure -- Making dative a case for semantic analysis: -- Differences in use between native and non-native speakers of -- German -- Personal pronouns, blending, and narrative -- viewpoint -- Meaning construction in humorous discourse: Context -- and incongruities in conceptual blending -- Mental spaces and mental verbs in early child -- English -- Spanish gustar vs. English like: A cognitive -- analysis of the constructions and its implication for SLA -- Part II Applying discourse and corpus perspectives -- to issues in Cognitive Linguistics -- The development of verb-argument structure in child -- discourse: On the use of construction variation in peer play -- Another look at French split intransitivity -- BORING: It s anything but -- It s like making a soup: Metaphors and similes in -- spoken news discourse -- A discourse approach to metaphor: Explaining -- systematic metaphors for literacy processes in a school discourse -- community -- Superschemas and the grammar of metaphorical -- mappings -- Backmatter