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Preface by Halliday
Preface by Chomsky
Typographical conventions
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Prototypes and categories
1.1 Colours,squares ,birds and cups:early empirical research into Iexical categories
1.2 The internal structure of categories:prototypes,attributes ,family resemblances and gestalt
1.3 Context-dependence and cultural models
2 Levels of categorization
2.1 Basic level categories of organisms and concreteobjects
2.2 Superordinate categories and experiential hierarchies
2.3 Subordinate categories ,composite terms and word-formation
2.4 Basic level categories and basic experiences:actions,events,propertises,states and locations
3 Conceptual metaphors and metonymies
3.1 Metaphors and metonymies:from figures of speech to conceptual systems
3.2 Metaphors,metonymies and the structure of emotioncategories
3.3 Metaphors as a way of thinking:examples from science and politics
4 Figure and ground
4.1 Figure and ground,trajector and Iandmark early research into prepositions
4.2 Figure,ground and two metaphore:a cognitive explanation of simple clause patterns
4.3 Other types of prominence and gognitive processing
5 The frame and attention approach
6 Other issues in cognitive linguistics
Conclusion
References
Index of persons
Index of subjects
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