Clearly organized and written, this textbook provides a useful introduction to the relationship between language and cognitive processing in the human brain. 

It covers the topics likely to be encountered in a course or seminar, and provides a synthesis of study and research in a fast-growing field of linguistics.

The much-needed introduction will be welcomed by undergraduates and graduates in linguistics and cognitive science.

1. Introduction: What is Cognitive Lingustics?

PART I: A Conceptual Approach to Linguistic Analysis

2. Frames, Domains, Spaces: the Organization of Conceptual Structure

3. Conceptualization and Construal Operations

4. Categories, Concepts and Meanings

PART II: Cognitive Approaches to Lexical Semantics

5. Polysemy: The Construal of Sense Boundaries

6. A Dynamic Construal Approach to Sense Relations I: Hyponymy and Meronymy 

7. A Dynamic Construal Approach to Sense Relations II: Antonymy and Complementarity

8. Metaphor

PART III: Congnitive Approaches to Grammatical Form

9. From Idioms to Construction Grammar

10. An Overview of Construction Grammars

11. The Usage-Based Model

12. Conclusion: Cognitive Linguistics and Beyond

D. Alan Cruse

Senior Lecturer in the School of English and Linguistics, University of Manchester.

William Croft 

Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manchester.

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