Contents -- Chapter 1: Memory and language: Introduction -- Part 1. Linguistic structure and memory -- Chapter 2: A constructivist epistemology for the language sciences -- Chapter 3: 'What's a nice NP like you doing in a place like this?' The grammar and use of English inversions -- Chapter 4: Cooccurrence and constructions -- Chapter 5: On the reduction of complexity: Some thoughts on the interaction between conceptual metaphor, conceptual metonymy, and human memory -- Chapter 6: Making ends meet -- Part 2. Select linguistic notions and memory -- Chapter 7: Evaluation and cognition: Inscribing, evoking and provoking opinion -- Chapter 8: Causality and subjectivity: The causal connectives of Modern Greek -- Chapter 9: Expression of uncertain goals in communication: The case of multifunctional 'try' -- Chapter 10: What psycholinguistic negation research tells us about the nature of the working-memory representations utilized in language comprehension -- Part 3. Discoursal units and memory -- Chapter 11: It utterly boggles the mind: Knowledge, common ground and coherence -- Chapter 12: Remembering another's experience: Epistemological stance and evaluation in narrative retelling -- Chapter 13 Conversation memory: Intentions, politeness, and the social context -- Chapter 14: Nonliteral language, persuasion, and memory -- Index.