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