Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The heartland of Cognitive Linguistics -- Chapter 2. From conceptual representations to social processes: aspects of the ongoing social turn -- Chapter 3: Social constructions and discourses -- Chapter 4. The foundations of a socio-cognitive synthesis: social reality as the context of cognition -- Chapter 5. Meaning and flow: the relation between usage and competency -- Chapter 6. Structure, function and variation -- Chapter 7. Meaning and social reality -- Chapter 8. Multi-ethnic societies: discourses vs. social cognitive linguistics -- Chapter 9: Summary and perspectives -- Backmatter