Mental States. Volume 2: Language and cognitive structure -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- List of contributors -- 1. Mental categories in natural languages -- 2. A culture-neutral metalanguage for mental state concepts -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Semantic primes for mental states -- 3 Explicating emotion terms: "Surprise" in English and Malay -- 4 Explicating epistemic verbs: English vs. Swedish -- 5 Explicating ethnopsychological constructs: English, Malay and Korean -- 6 Implications and conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Appendix -- 3. Shape and colour in language and thought -- 1 Languages as the mirror of the mind - and as mirrors of different, culturally shaped, "minds" -- 2 The importance of studying the meaning of words -- 3 Explicating abstract concepts and concrete concepts -- 4 Exploring the concept of shape -- 5 The importance of hands in the conceptualisation of the world -- 6 Shape vs. dimensions -- 7 What the two Burarra terms mean and why they are not "colour" terms -- References -- 4. Universal and language-specific aspects of "propositional attitudes" -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Theories of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage and the Moscow School of Semantics compared -- 3 Dumat' and sčitat' in the canonical contexts of the primitive think -- 4 The semantics of sčitat' -- 5 Sčitat' in a broader linguistic and cultural context -- 6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 5. Mental states reflected in cognitive lexemes related to memory -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Mental verbs in Korean -- 3 kiekha- 'remember' -- 4 kiekna- 'memory comes, remember' -- 5 chwuekha- 'reminisce' -- 6 Conclusion -- Romanisation and abbreviations in interlinear glosses -- Typographical conventions -- Corpus used for Korean examples -- References -- Appendix -- 6. Taste as a gateway to Chinese cognition.

1 Introduction -- 2 A taste of Chinese 'taste'-related words -- 3 Research methodology -- 4 Semantic analysis of Chinese 'taste' terms -- 5 Theoretical and methodological implications -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 7. "Then I'll huff and I'll puff or I'll go on the roff!" thinks the wolf -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Autism -- 3 Autism and narrative -- 4 This case study -- 5 A simple two-part model of knowledge state management: Personal narrative -- 6 Lincoln's spontaneous written story retelling -- 7 Episodic macrostructure of the retold stories -- 8 Perspective -- 9 Conclusions -- References -- Appendix -- 8. Interaction between language and cognition in language development -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background context -- 3 Resurgence of interest in linguistic relativity -- 4 Thinking-for-speaking -- 5 The temporal domain -- 6 The Thai aspectual system -- 7 The Thai frog story data -- 8 Typological and language-specific patterns -- References -- 9. What figurative language development reveals about the mind -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The late development view -- 3 The early development view - recent work -- 4 The development of hyperbole -- 5 Why figurative language cognition should develop early: Theory of Mind -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- 10. Would you rather 'embert a cudsert' or' cudsert an embert'? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Dictionary analysis -- 3 Readers' sensitivity to orthographic cues -- 4 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix A -- 11. Ethnobiological classification and the environment in Northern Australia -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Berlin folk taxonomic system -- 3 Indigenous Australian folk taxonomies -- 4 Characteristics of names for individuals and kinds -- 5 Conclusion: Why are the taxonomic systems of Aboriginal societies so different to that of English? -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements.

References -- 12. Events masquerading as entities -- 1 Introduction -- 2 An introduction to some relevant features of Mawng -- 3 The three types of complement clauses in Mawng -- 4 Pseudorelatives in French and Mawng -- 5 Relative clauses and focus sentences -- 6 Towards a discourse-based account of the Mawng pseudorelative -- 7 Conclusions -- Abbreviations -- References -- 13. Word and construction as units of categorization -- 1 Introduction: Word, category, polysemy, construction -- 2 Expressing change in Estonian: An overview -- 3 Change-of-state constructions in Estonian -- 4 The change-of-state senses of Estonian core verbs -- 5 Principles for categorizing change in Estonian -- 6 Conclusion -- Abbrevations -- References -- 14. Categories and concepts in phonology -- 1 The role of concepts -- 2 What is a concept? -- 3 What about words? -- 4 Why study concepts? -- 5 Theorising concepts -- 6 The Natural Attitude -- 7 A method of analysis -- 8 Metalanguage -- 9 Phonological terms -- 10 Acquisition of phonological terms -- 11 Abstractness of phonological terms -- 12 Implications for theory -- 13 Implications for practice -- 14 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 15. You can run, but: Another look at linguistic relativity -- 1 What's the argument? -- 2 The role of positive and negative instances -- 3 Examples -- 4 Point-light displays -- 5 Verbs of motion -- 6 What can we conclude? -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Name index -- Language index -- Subject index -- Table of contents of volume 1 -- Studies in Language Companion Series.