Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Opening chapter -- How cognitive linguistics can foster effective -- vocabulary teaching -- Part one: Refining the empirical evidence -- Using conceptual metaphors and metonymies in -- vocabulary teaching -- Conceptual metaphoric meaning clues in two idiom -- presentation methods -- How cognitive linguistic motivations influence the -- learning of phrasal verbs -- A discovery approach to figurative language -- learning with the use of corpora -- Variables in the mnemonic effectiveness of -- pictorial elucidation -- Part two: Broadening the scope -- Reasoning figuratively in early EFL: Some -- implications for the development of vocabulary -- Translating the senses: Teaching the metaphors in -- winespeak -- What bilingual word associations can tell -- us -- Factors which influence the process of -- collocation -- The notion of boundedness/unboundedness in the -- foreign language classroom -- Structural elaboration by the sound (and feel) of -- it -- A quantitative comparison of the English and -- Spanish repertoires of figurative idioms -- Closing chapter -- From empirical findings to pedagogical -- practice -- Backmatter