Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Contrastive linguistics -- Fundamental principles of structural contrastive studies -- Equivalence, congruence and deep structure -- On some linguistic limitations of classical contrastive analyses -- Contrastive Generative Grammar -- Contrastive analysis in a new dimension -- The problem of equivalence revisited -- Quantitative contrastive analysis -- What do we need lexical contrastive studies for? -- Tertium comparationis -- The so-called "sign theory" as the first method in contrastivelinguistics -- An Elizabethan contrastive grammar of Spanish and French -- Contrastive neurolinguistics: Between science and sciencefiction -- Part II. Cognitive linguistics -- Prototypes and equivalence -- Language as the material substance ("tworzywo") of liter -- The axiological aspect of idealized cognitive models -- Metaphor - metaphorization - cognition -- The exculpation of the Conduit Metaphor -- The axiological structure of discourse -- The axiological parameter in preconceptional image schemata -- Is 'good' a polysemous lexical item? -- Is 'literary text' a radial category? A warning for those whoattempt to apply prototypes to literary studies -- Transmogrification -- From target to source: Metaphors made real -- Metaphors of discourse:Between co-operative and oppositional discourses -- Barriers in communication -- Pre-axiological schemas updated -- A tract about wine in the Bible -- On the metalanguage of cognitive grammar.