Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction. Change of paradigms - New paradoxes. Recontextualizing language and linguistics -- Part One: Language in the context of cognition -- Instru-mentality -- The dynamics of a usage-based approach -- Part Two: Usage-based lexical semantics and semantic change -- Semasiology and onomasiology -- Education in the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary -- Bueno, a window opener -- How does context produce metaphors? -- Blending effects in bahuvrihi compounds -- Metonymic relationships among actuality, modality, evaluation, and emotion -- Part Three: Recontextualizing grammar -- On the origins of cognitive grammar -- The linguistic representations of agency in causal chains -- Much in all as: The anatomy of a strange expression -- Descriptive and discursive organization in cognitive grammar -- Part Four: The importance of socio-cultural context -- Language in the mind and in the community -- Cognitive sociolinguistics, language systems and the fall of empires -- Cultural cognitive models of language variation -- Googling Toubon -- Part Five: Methodological challenges of contextual parameters -- Four challenges for usage-based linguistics -- The role of quantitative methods in cognitive linguistics -- Does gender-related variation still have an effect, even when topic and (almost) everything else is controlled? -- Recontextualizing language complexity -- A quantitative analysis of qualitative free response data -- Index