Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction - Rice taboos, broad faces and complex -- categories -- The Americas South America: Quechua -- Completion, comas and other "downers": Observations -- on the semantics of the Wanca Quechua directional suffix -lpu -- Central America: Uto-Aztecan -- Speakers, context, and Cora conceptual -- metaphors -- Reduplication in Nahuatl: Iconicities and -- paradoxes -- North America: Salish -- Conceptual autonomy and the typology of parts of -- speech in Upper Necaxa Totonac and other languages -- Asia and Western Pacific Rim Austronesian -- Hawaiian -- Hawaiian 'o as an indicator of nominal -- salience -- Isnag -- Animism exploits linguistic phenomena -- Tagalog -- The Tagalog prefix category PAG-: Metonymy, -- polysemy, and voice -- Thai -- Conceptual structure of numeral classifiers in -- Thai -- A cognitive account of the causative/inchoative -- alternation in Thai -- Conceptual metaphors motivating the use of Thai -- 'face' -- Holistic spatial semantics of Thai -- Chinese -- The bodily dimension of meaning in Chinese: what do -- we do and mean with "hands"?* -- Japanese and Korean -- What cognitive linguistics can reveal about -- complementation in non-IE languages: Case studies from Japanese and -- Korean -- Zibun reflexivization in Japanese: A Cognitive -- Grammar approach -- Europe: Finnish -- Subjectivity and the use of Finnish emotive -- verbs -- From causatives to passives: A passage in some East -- and Southeast Asian languages -- Backmatter