Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Linguistic structures as cues for social cognitive functions: Introduction -- Section I: Social cognition and language -- Chapter 2. The origin of the social approach in language and cognitive research exemplified by studies into the origin of language -- Chapter 3. Fused bodies: Sense-making as a phenomenon of interacting, knowledgeable, social bodies -- Chapter 4. Supracultural models, universalism and relativism: The language of personhood in Chinese and American cultures -- Chapter 5. The development of Turkish and Finnish words related to privacy -- Chapter 6. On collective cognition and language -- Section II: Social cognition in discourse -- Chapter 7. Conversational pragmatics and social cognition -- Chapter 8. The creative construction of social orientation: Situated positioning with English as a lingua franca -- Chapter 9. Constructing knowledge schemas in the workplace: A microanalysis -- Chapter 10. Corporate self-presentation and self-centredness: A case for cognitive Critical Discourse Analysis -- Chapter 11. Distributed cognition and play in the quest for the double helix -- Chapter 12. Social aspects of verbal irony use -- Section III: Social cognitive functions of single structures -- Chapter 13. Attribution theories wired into linguistic categories -- Chapter 14. Tuned to hidden messages: Exploring recurrent word combinations in English -- Chapter 15. Emotion talk and emotional talk: Cognitive and discursive perspectives -- Chapter 16. From motion to emotion to interpersonal function: The case of fear predicates -- Chapter 17. Metaphor in mental representations of space, time and society: The cognitive linguistic approach -- Backmatter