Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction Cognitive Linguistics: Current -- applications and future perspectives -- Part one: The cognitive base -- Methodology in Cognitive Linguistics -- Polysemy and the lexicon -- Cognitive approaches to grammar -- Part two: The conceptual leap -- Three dogmas of embodiment: Cognitive linguistics -- as a cognitive science -- Metonymy as a usage event -- Conceptual blending in thought, rhetoric, and -- ideology -- Part three: The psychological basis -- The contested impact of cognitive linguistic -- research on the psycholinguistics of metaphor understanding -- X IS LIKE Y: The emergence of similarity mappings -- in children s early speech and gesture -- Part four: Go, tell it on the mountain -- Energy through fusion at last: Synergies in -- cognitive anthropology and cognitive linguistics -- Cognitive linguistic applications in second or -- foreign language instruction: rationale, proposals, and -- evaluation -- Part five: Verbal and beyond: Vision and -- imagination -- Visual communication: Signed language and -- cognition -- Non-verbal and multimodal metaphor in a cognitivist -- framework: Agendas for research -- The fall of the wall between literary studies and -- linguistics: Cognitive poetics -- Part six: Virtual reality as a new -- experience -- Artificial intelligence, figurative language and -- cognitive linguistics -- Computability as a test on linguistics -- theories -- Backmatter