Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction: as strong as its foundations, as wide -- as its scope -- Section 1. Variety in unity: Cognitive-Functional -- Linguistics and different routes within CL -- Major strands in Cognitive Linguistics -- Brothers in arms? On the relations between -- Cognitive and Functional Linguistics -- Construction Grammars: cognitive, radical, and less -- so -- Section 2. A usage-based Cognitive -- Linguistics -- Lectal variation and empirical data in Cognitive -- Linguistics -- Social cognition: variation, language, and culture -- in a cognitive linguistic typology -- Section 3. A mental-process-oriented Cognitive -- Linguistics -- Embodied action in thought and language -- Conceptual interaction, cognitive operations, and -- projection spaces -- Section 4. A discourse-oriented Cognitive -- Linguistics -- Basic Discourse Acts: towards a psychological -- theory of discourse segmentation -- The multilevel operation of metonymy in grammar and -- discourse, with particular attention to metonymic chains -- The role of conceptual metonymy in meaning -- construction -- Tracking the fate of the metaphor silent spring in -- British environmental discourse -- Backmatter