Publishers acknowledgements
Preface to the second edition
Typographical conventions
Introduction
1 Prototypes and categories
1.1 Colours，squares，birds and cups：early empirical research
into lexical 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 concrete objects
2.2 Superordinate and subordinate categories
2.3 Conceptual hierarchies
2.4 Categorization and composite word forms
2.5 Basic level categories and basic experiences：actions，
events，properties，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 emotion
categories
3.3 Metaphors as a way of thinking：examples from science
and politics
3.4 Thinking in metonymies：potential and limitations

4 Figure and ground
4.1 Figure and ground，trajector and landmark：
early research into prepositions
4.2 Figure，ground and two metaphors：a cognitive
explanation of simple clause patterns
4.3 Other types of prominence and cognitive processing

5　Frames and cOnstructions
5.1 Frames and scripts
5.2 Event-frames and the windowing of attention
5.3 Language-specific framing and its use in narrative texts
5.4 Construction Grammar

6 Blending and relevance
6.1 Metaphor，metonymy and conceptual blending
6.2 Conceptual blending in linguistic analysis and description
6.3 Conceptual blending in advertising texts，riddles and iokes
6.4 Relevance：a cognitive·pragmatic phenomenon

7 Other issues in cognitive linguistics
7.1 lconicity
7.2 Lexical change and prototypicality
7.3 Cognitive aspects of grammaticalization
7.4 Effects on foreign language teaching
Conclusion