I-IV -- Contents -- Preface -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: The cognitive paradigm: Goals, frameworks, implications -- The alphabet of human thoughts -- Cognitive semantics and the history of philosophical epistemology -- From meaning to message in two theories: Cognitive and Saussurean views of the Modern Dutch demonstratives -- A functional view on prototypes -- Process linguistics: A cognitive-scientific approach to natural language understanding -- Requirements for a computational lexicon: a cognitive approach -- Some pedagogical implications of cognitive linguistics -- Part II: Meaning and meaning extension -- On representing and referring -- Minimal and full definitions of meaning -- Metacognitive aspects of reference: Assessing referential correctness and success -- An image-schematic constraint on metaphor -- The axiological parameter in preconceptional image schemata -- Value judgment in the metaphorization of linguistic action -- Part III: Lexico-syntactic phenomena -- Schematic values of the Japanese nominal particles wa and ga -- The meaning of (a) round: A study of an English preposition -- The semantics of giving in Mandarin -- Agentivity in cognitive grammar -- Cases as conceptual categories: Evidence from German -- A cognitive account of Samoan lavea and galo verbs -- "Locations", "paths" and the Cora verb -- Part IV: A broader perspective: Discursive, cross-linguistic, cross-cultural -- Patterns of mobilization: A study of interaction signals in Romance -- Interaction and cognition: Speech act schemata with but and their interrelation with discourse type -- Syntactic, semantic and interactional prototypes: The case of left-dislocation -- Scenes and frames for orders and threats -- Tenses and demonstratives: Conspecific categories -- Articles in translation: An exercise in cognitive linguistics -- What does it mean for a language to have no singular-plural distinction? Noun-verb homology and its typological implication -- Subject index