Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 General issues -- 2 Conventional figurative language and phraseology -- 3 On the cross-linguistic equivalence of idioms -- 4 Motivation of conventional figurative units -- 5 "False friends" and paronyms -- 6 The Cognitive Theory of Metaphor -- 7 Idioms of Fear: A cognitive approach -- 8 Cognitive modelling of figurative semantics -- 9 Specific frames: The concept House in language and culture -- 10 Culture and figurative language -- 11 Cultural symbolism in figurative language -- 12 Numeral words and number symbols in culture and language: Case studies -- 13 Animal metaphors and animal symbols: Case studies -- 14 Conclusions -- References -- Abbreviations -- Subject index