Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Publication sources -- Section 1. Prototypicality and salience -- Chapter 1. Prospects and problems of prototype theory -- Chapter 2. Where does prototypicality come from? -- Chapter 3. The semantic structure of Dutch over -- Chapter 4. Salience phenomena in the lexicon. A typology -- Section 2. Polysemy -- Chapter 5. Vagueness's puzzles, polysemy's vagaries -- Chapter 6. Classical definability and the monosemic bias -- Section 3. Constructions and idioms -- Chapter 7. The semantic structure of the indirect object in Dutch -- Chapter 8. The interaction of metaphor and metonymy in composite expressions -- Section 4. Meaning and culture -- Chapter 9. Looking back at anger. Cultural traditions and metaphorical patterns -- Chapter 10. Beer and semantics -- Chapter 11. Cultural models of linguistic standardization -- Chapter 12. Caught in a web of irony: Job and his embarassed God -- Section 5. Lexicography -- Chapter 13. The lexicographical treatment of prototypical polysemy -- Chapter 14. The definitional practice of dictionaries and the cognitive semantic conception of polysemy -- Section 6. Theory and method in lexical semantics -- Chapter 15. Cognitive grammar and the history of lexical semantics -- Chapter 16. The theoretical and descriptive development of lexical semantics -- Chapter 17. Idealist and empiricist tendencies in cognitive semantics -- Backmatter