Aspects of Meaning Construction -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction: The construction of meaning in language -- 1. Underspecification and the construction of meaning -- 2. Types of underspecification -- 3. Ways of constructing underspecified meanings -- References -- Part I. Metonymy and metaphor -- Experimental tests of figurative meaning construction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Metonymy and meaning construction -- 3. Proving the psychological reality of conceptual metonymies -- 4. Studies on metonymic processing -- 5. Mutual adjustment during figurative language processing -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- High-level metaphor and metonymy in meaning construction -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Levels of description -- 3. Constraints on metaphor and metonymy -- 4. Metonymic chains -- 5. Metaphor, metonymy, and grammar -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- The role of metonymy in meaning construction at discourse level -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Metonymy -- 3. Discussion of some relevant parts of the case study -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Appendix -- Chained metonymies in lexicon and grammar -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Chained metonymies -- 3. Body part terms and their chained metonymies -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Arguing the case against coercion -- Introduction -- 1. Defining terms -- 2. Examples of coercion in recent studies -- 3. Coercion in the construction of meaning -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- When Zidane is not simply Zidane, and Bill Gates is not just Bill Gates -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Objectivist theories of reference vs. cognitive approach to the figurative use of proper names -- 3. Metonymy and metaphor in the construction of the meaning of figuratively used proper names -- 4. Conclusions and prospects for further research -- References.

Collocational overlap can guidemetaphor interpretation -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A frequency-based model of collocational overlap -- 3. An association-based model of collocational overlap -- 4. Evaluation of the model against native-speaker interpretations -- 5. General discussion -- References -- Part 2. Mental spaces and conceptual blending -- Constructing the meanings of personal pronouns -- References -- The construction of meaning in relative clauses -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The construction of meaning in relative clauses -- 3. Pragmatically and contextually driven interpretations -- 4. Conceptual and constructional constraints in the interpretation of relatives -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Constraints on inferential constructions -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Constraints on the English inferential construction -- 3. The distribution of inferential constructions in discourse -- 4. A discourse constraint on English inferential constructions -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- The construction of vagueness -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Lexical sources -- 3. The functions of taxonomic nouns in scientific contexts -- 4. The emergence of approximative modifiers -- 5. From prepositional to modifying use -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Dictionaries, corpora, and internet sources -- Communication or memory mismatch? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Radical Experientialism and Cognitive Typology -- 3. Questions -- 4. Interrogation and memory mismatch -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Brutal Brits and persuasive Americans -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A construction-based approach -- 3. Previous studies of the into-causative -- 4. The into-causative in British vs. American English -- 5. Summary -- References -- Index of authors -- Index of subjects -- Index of metonymies and metaphors.