I-XIV -- Introduction: On construing the world -- Seeing it in more than one way -- Possession and possessive constructions -- What lack needs to have: A study in the cognitive semantics of privation -- The construal of cause: The case of cause prepositions -- Conceptual grammaticalization and prediction -- Metaphors of anger in Japanese -- Looking back at anger: Cultural traditions and metaphorical patterns -- Anger: Its language, conceptualization, and physiology in the light of cross-cultural evidence -- The metaphorical conception of mind: "Mental activity is manipulation" -- Vantage theory -- The terror of Montezuma: Aztec history, vantage theory, and the category of "person" -- Selection of Japanese categories during social interaction -- Genus, species, and vantages -- On construing the world of language -- Index of names -- Subject index -- Contributors