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Notari, Christiane. 2010. Chomsky et l'ordinateur: Approche critique d'une théorie linguistique (Chomsky and the Computer: Critical Approach to a Linguistic Theory). Toulouse, France: Presses Universitaires du Mirail.

Bartsch, Renate 2005. Memory and Understanding. Concept formation in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 160 pp.

Bloor, Thomas and Meriel Bloor. 2004. The Functional Analysis of English. A Hallidayan Approach. Second Edition. Oxford: OUP. 332 pp.

Bohn, Ocke-Schwen, Albert Gjedde and Anjum Saleemi (eds). 2006. In Search of a Language for the Mind-Brain. Can the Multiple Perspectives be Unified? Aarhus: Aarhus University Press. 524 pp.

Branco, António, Tony McEnery and Ruslan Mitkov (eds.) 2005. Anaphora Processing. Linguistic, cognitive and computational modelling. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 449 pp.

Brenner, Nannette Valencia Manalo. 2005. Metaphors We Kill By; Rhetoric and Conceptual Structure in United States Army Doctrine. Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. 250 pp. Keywords: force dynamics, metaphor, blending, rhetoric, theory of mind, folk theories of communication, military science, military training. Weblink on Proquest.

Chafe, Wallace. 2007. The importance of not being earnest. The feeling behind laughter and humor. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Cienki, Alan and Cornelia Müller (eds.). Metaphor and gesture. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Colston, Herbert L. and Albert N. Katz (eds.) 2005. Figurative Language Comprehension. Social and Cultural Influences. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 360 pp.

Contini-Morava, Ellen, Robert S. Kirsner and Betsy Rodriguez-Bachiller (eds.) 2004. Cognitive and Communicative Approaches to Linguistic Analysis. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 389 pp.

Croft, William & D. Alan Cruse. 2004. Cognitive Linguistics. Cambridge: CUP. 372 pp.

Cutler, Anne (ed.) 2005. Twenty-first century psycholinguistics. Four cornerstones. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 424 pp.

Dam, Helle V., Jan Engberg, Heidrun Gerzymisch-Arbogast (eds.) 2005. Knowledge Systems and Translation. (Text, Translation, Computational Processing [TTCP] 7. ) Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 325 pp.

Dancygier, Barbara & Eve Sweetser. 2005. Mental Spaces in Grammar. Cambridge: CUP. 312 pp.

Dirven, René and Marjolijn H. Verspoor (eds.) 2004. Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics. Second revised edition. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 277 pp.

Dixon, R.M.W. 2005. A Semantic Approach to English Grammar. Oxford: OUP. 512 pp.

Dror, Itiel (ed.) 2007. Cognitive Technologies and the Pragmatics of Cognition. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Duncan, Susan, Justine Cassell and Elena T. Levy (eds.) 2007. Gesture and the Dynamic Dimension of Language. Essays in honor of David McNeill. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Ellis, Ralph D. and Natika Newton (eds.) 2005. Consciousness and Emotion. Agency, conscious choice, and selective perception. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 330 pp.

Gavins, Joanna. 2007. Text World Theory. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Glaz, Adam. 2002. The Dynamics of Meaning. Explorations in the Conceptual Domain of EARTH. Lublin: Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press. 209 pp. Keywords: lexical semantics, cognitive semantics, network model, dynamic meaning, semantic space, dynamic semantic space, earth, polysemy, intercategorial tensions, intracategorial tensions

Globus, Gordon G., Karl H. Pribram and Giuseppe Vitiello (eds.) 2004. Brain and Being. At the boundary between science, philosophy, language and arts. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 350 pp.

Goddard, Cliff (ed.) 2006. Ethnopragmatics. Understanding Discourse in Cultural Context. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 278 pp.

Gorayska, Barbara and Jacob L. Mey (eds.) 2004. Cognition and Technology. Co-existence, convergence and co-evolution. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 369 pp.

Graumann, Carl Friedrich and Werner Kallmeyer (eds.) 2002. Perspective and Perspectivation in Discourse. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 401 pp.

Gries, Stefan Th. and Anatol Stefanowitsch (eds.) 2005. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory 1/1. Inaugural issue.

Grygiel, Marcin. 2005. Towards a Cognitive Theory of Semantic Change: Semantic Development of English Historical Near-Synonyms of MAN/MALE HUMAN BEING in Panchronic Perspective. PhD dissertation, University of Rzeszow. 297 pp. Keywords: semantic change, semantic development, conceptual blending, panchrony, polysemy

Hamawand, Zeki. 2007. Suffixal Rivalry in Adjective Formation: A Cognitive-Corpus Analysis. London: Equinox Publishing. 224 pp.

Hamawand, Zeki. 2008. Morpho-Lexical Alternation in Noun Formation. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. 200 pp.

Hamawand, Zeki. 2009. The Semantics of English Negative Prefixes. London: Equinox Publishing.

Hilferty, Joseph. 2003. In Defense of Grammatical Constructions. Ph.D. thesis. Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona. Keywords: grammatical constructions, construction grammar, constructions vs. principles, modularity, innateness.

Iwata, Seizi. 2008. Locative alternation. A lexical-constructional approach. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Janzen, Terry (ed.) 2005. Topics in Signed Language Interpreting. Theory and practice. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 362 pp.

Johansson Falck, Marlene. 2005. Technology, Language and Thought: Extensions of Meaning in the English Lexicon. Luleå 2005: 31. Luleå: University of Technology, Department of Languages and Culture.

Koller, Veronika. 2004. Metaphor and Gender in Business Media Discourse: A Critical Cognitive Study. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 256 pp. Key words: business media, cognitive semantics, Critical Discourse Analysis,language and gender, metaphor, social cognition

Krois, John Michael, Mats Rosengren, Angela Steidele and Dirk Westerkamp (eds.) 2007. Embodiment in Cognition and Culture. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Kuno, Susumu and Ken-ichi Takami (eds.) 2004. Functional Constraints in Grammar. On the unergative - unaccusative distinction. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 242 pp.

Laffut, An. 2006. Three-Participant Constructions in English: A functional-cognitive approach to caused relations. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 268 pp.

Lascaratou, Chryssoula. 2007. The language of pain. Expression or description. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Leino, Jaako (ed.) 2008. Constructional reorganization. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara, and Alina Kwiatowska (eds.) 2004. Imagery in language: Festschrift in honour of Professor Ronald W. Langacker. Lódz Studies in Language v. 10. Frankfurt am Main, New York: Peter Lang.

Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Barbara. (ed.) 2008. Asymmetric events. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Liddell, Scott. 2003. Grammar, Gesture, and Meaning in American Sign Language. Cambridge: CUP

Linhares-Dias, Rui. 2006. How to Show Things with Words. A Study on Logic, Language and Literature. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 544 pp.

Luchjenbroers, June (ed.) 2006. Cognitive Linguistics Investigations. Across languages, fields and philosophical boundaries. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Maeder, Costantino, Olga Fischer and William J. Herlofsky (eds.) 2005. Outside-In - Inside-Out. Iconicity in Language and Literature. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 427 pp.

Magnusson, Ulf, Henryk Kardela and Adam Glaz (eds.) 2007. Further Insights into Semantics and Lexicography. Lublin: UMCS. [Keywords: semantics, lexical semantics, metaphor, viewing, imagery, motivation, blending, historical semantics, lexicography]

Mandler, Jean M. 2004. The Foundations of Mind. Origins of Conceptual Thought. Oxford: OUP.

Martín de León, Celia. 2005. Contenedores, recorridos y metas. Metáforas en la traductología funcionalista. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. Keywords: conceptual metaphor, translation theory, German functionalism, container metaphor, transfer metaphor, path-target metaphor. 280 pp.

Minett, James W. and William S.Y. Wang (eds.). 2009. Language, Evolution, and the Brain. Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press.

Nathan, G. 2008. Phonology. A Cognitive Grammar Introduction. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Oakley, Todd and Anders Hougaard. 2008. Mental Spaces in Discourse and Interaction. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

O'Connor, Loretta. 2007. Motion, Transfer and Transformation. The grammar of change in Lowland Chontal. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Paradis, Michel 2004. A Neurolinguistic Theory of Bilingualism. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 299 pp.

Pishwa, Hanna (ed.) 2006. Language and Memory. Aspects of Knowledge Representation. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 447 pp.

Radden, Günter and Klaus-Uwe Panther (eds.) 2004. Studies in Linguistic Motivation. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 389 pp.

Riemer, Nick. 2005. The Semantics of Polysemy. Reading Meaning in English and Warlpiri XVI. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 487 pp.

Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José (ed.) 2006. Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics. Volume 4. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José and M. Sandra Peña Cervel, (eds.) 2005. Cognitive Linguistics. Internal Dynamics and Interdisciplinary Interaction. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 432 pp.

Saint-Dizier, Patrick (ed.) 2005. Computational Lexical Semantics. Cambridge: CUP.

Schalley, Andrea C. and Dietmar Zaefferer (eds.) 2007. Ontolinguistics. How Ontological Status Shapes the Linguistic Coding of Concepts. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Schlesinger, Izchak M. 2006. Cognitive Space and Linguistic Case. Semantic and Syntactic Categories in English. Cambridge: CUP.

Schlüter, Julia. 2005. Rhythmic Grammar. The Influence of Rhythm on Grammatical Variation and Change in English. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. xi, 393 pages.

Schmidtke-Bode, Karsten. 2009. A Typology of Purpose Clauses. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Schwarz-Friesel, Monica et al. (eds.) 2007. Anaphors in Text. Cognitive, formal, and applied approaches to anaphoric reference. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Semino, Elena and Jonathan Culpeper (eds.) 2002. Cognitive Stylistics. Language and cognition in text analysis. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 333 pp.

Steen, Gerard. 2007. Finding Metaphor in Grammar and Usage. A methodological analysis of theory and research. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Steube, Anita. 2004. Information Structure. Theoretical and Empirical Aspects. XXII. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 360 pp.

Stukker, Ninke. 2005. Causality markers across levels of language structure. A cognitive semantic analysis of causal verbs and causal connectives in Dutch. Ph.D. Dissertation, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS, Utrecht University. 297 pp. Keywords: causality marking, causal connectives, causative verbs, conceptual models, prototype structure, usage-based, converging evidence

Tabakowska, Elzbieta, Christina Ljungberg and Olga Fischer (eds.) 2007. Insistent Images. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Tallerman, Maggie. 2005. Language Origins. Perspectives on Evolution. Oxford: OUP. 446 pp.

Tenbrink, Thora. 2007. Space, Time, and the Use of Language. An Investigation of Relationships. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

ter Meulen, Alice, and Werner Abraham (eds.) 2004. The Composition of Meaning. From lexeme to discourse. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 232 pp.

Trautwein, Martin. 2004. The Time Window of Language. The Interaction between Linguistic and Non-Linguistic Knowledge in the Temporal Interpretation of German and English Texts. XXII. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 387 pp.

Turewicz, Kamila (ed.) 2005. Cognitive Linguistics - A user-friendly approach. Szczecin: Szczecin University Press. 128 pp. Key words: metaphor and metonymy, vantage theory, complex sentence, cognitive grammar, tense and aspect, discourse, subjectification, polysemy of prepositions

Tyler, Andrea and Vyv Evans. 2003. The Semantics of English Prepositions. Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning, and Cognition. Cambridge: CUP.

Vanhove, Martine (ed.) 2008. From polysemy to semantic change. Towards a typology of lexical semantic associations. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Velasco Sacristán, María Sol. 2005. Metáfora y Género: Las Metáforas de Género en la Publicidad de 'British Cosmopolitan'. Universidad de Valladolid.

Verhoeven, Elisabeth. 2007. Experiential Constructions in Yucatec Maya. A typologically based analysis of a functional domain in a Mayan language. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Vermeerbergen, Myriam, Lorraine Leeson, and Onno Crasborn (eds.) 2007. Simultaneity in signed languages. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Vogel, Anna. 2004. Swedish Dimensional Adjectives. Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International. 377 pp. Key words: dimensional adjectives, semantics, Swedish, spatial, antonymy, prototype theory, polysemy, corpus-based, elicitation tests

Wierzbicka, Anna. 2006. English. Meaning and Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Zlatev, Jordan, Timothy P. Racine, Chris Sinha and Esa Itkonen (eds). 2008. The shared mind. Perspectives on intersubjectivity. Benjamins.

Updated 25 Aug 2010