Cognitive Modeling -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1. Aims and scope of the book -- 2. Methodology and data -- 3. A note on cognitive reality -- 4. The structure of the book -- Chapter 2. Theoretical pre-requisites -- 1. Introduction: In search for a unified framework of analysis -- 1.1 Standards of adequacy -- 1.2 The Equipollence Hypothesis -- 2. An overview of the Lexical Constructional Model -- 2.1 Levels of description and explanation -- 2.2 Interaction within and across levels -- 2.3 Constraints on subsumption -- 2.4 The Lexical Constructional Model in the context of Cognitive Semantics and Construction Grammar( -- 3. Figurative thought and figurative uses of language -- 3.1 Metaphor and metonymy -- 3.2 Overstatement: Hyperbole and auxesis -- 3.3 Understatement, meiosis and litotes -- 3.4 Irony -- 3.4.1 Verbal irony: An overview -- 3.4.2 Verbal irony vs. situational irony -- 3.4.3 Sarcasm -- 3.5 Paradox and oxymoron -- Chapter 3. Cognitive models -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Cognitive model types -- 2.1 Frames, domains, and spaces -- 2.2 Primary, low-level and high-level cognitive models -- 2.3 Propositional vs. situational cognitive models -- 2.3.1 High and low-level propositional models -- 2.3.2 High and low-level situational models -- 2.4 Scalar versus non-scalar cognitive models -- 3. Cognitive models and a typology of states of affairs -- 4. Cognitive models and the Lexical Constructional Model -- Chapter 4. Cognitive operations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Formal operations -- 2.1 Cueing -- 2.2 Selection -- 2.3 Abstraction -- 2.4 Integration -- 2.5 Substitution -- 3. Content operations: A preliminary exploration -- 3.1 Expansion and reduction -- 3.2 Correlation -- 3.3 Comparison -- 3.4 Echoing -- 3.5 Strengthening and mitigation -- 3.6 Parameterization.

3.7 Saturation -- 4. Patterns of combination of cognitive operations -- 4.1 Metaphoric complexes -- 4.1.1 Metaphoric amalgams -- 4.1.2 Metaphoric chains -- 4.2 Metaphtonymy -- 4.2.1 Metonymic expansion of the metaphoric source -- 4.2.2 Metonymic expansion of the metaphoric target -- 4.2.3 Metonymic reduction of the metaphoric source -- 4.2.4 Metonymic reduction of one of the correspondences of the metaphoric target -- 4.3 Metonymic complexes -- 4.3.1 Double metonymic expansion -- 4.3.2 Double metonymic reduction -- 4.3.3 Metonymic reduction plus metonymic expansion -- 4.3.4 Metonymic expansion plus metonymic reduction -- 4.4 Other patterns of metaphor-metonymy combinations -- 4.4.1 Metonymic chains within metaphoric mappings -- 4.4.2 Metonymic developments within metaphoric complexes -- 5. Constraining principles on cognitive operations -- 5.1 Constraints on formal operations -- 5.1.1 Principle of Conceptual Consistency -- 5.1.2 Conceptual Combination Principle -- 5.2 Constraints on content operations -- 5.2.1 The Extended Invariance Principle -- 5.2.2 The Correlation Principle -- 5.2.3 The Mapping Enforcement Principle -- 5.2.4 Principle of Scalar Symmetry -- 5.2.5 Principle of Scalar Pragmatic Adjustment -- Chapter 5. Content operations across levels of representation -- 1. Domain expansion and domain reduction -- 1.1 Domain expansion and reduction at the lexical level -- 1.2 Non-lexical domain expansion and reduction at level 1 -- 1.3 Domain expansion and reduction at the implicational level -- 1.4 Domain expansion and reduction at the illocutionary level -- 1.5 Domain expansion and reduction at the discourse level -- 2. Correlation -- 2.1 Correlation and primary metaphor. The metaphor-metonymy distinction -- 2.2 Correlation and actuality implications -- 2.3 Correlation at the implicational and illocutionary levels -- 3. Comparison.

3.1 Comparison by resemblance -- 3.1.1 Resemblance metaphors -- 3.1.2 Simile and resemblance operations -- 3.1.3 Resemblance operations and iconicity -- 3.2 Comparison by contrast -- 3.2.1 Paradox and oxymoron -- 3.2.2 Contrasting at discourse level -- 4. Echoing -- 4.1 Echoing at the argument-structure level -- 4.2 Echoing at the implicational and illocutionary levels: Irony -- 4.3 Echoing at the implicational level: Other pragmatic effects -- 4.3.1 The Don't (You) X NP construction -- 4.3.2 The Do I Look Like I X? construction -- 4.3.3 The X is not Y construction -- 4.4 Echoing at discourse level -- 5. Strengthening and mitigation -- 5.1 Hyperbole revisited -- 5.2 Understatement revisited -- 6. Parameterization and generalization -- 6.1 Parameterization at the lexical level -- 6.2 Parameterization at discourse level -- 6.2.1 Specification -- 6.2.2 Exemplification -- 6.2.3 Evidentialization -- 6.2.4 Time -- 6.2.5 Location -- 6.3 Parameterization at the illocutionary level -- 7. Saturation -- 7.1 Saturation at argument-structure level -- 7.2 Saturation at discourse level -- 7.2.1 Comment -- 7.2.2 Specification -- 7.2.3 Addition -- 7.2.4 Cause -- 7.2.5 Condition -- 7.2.6 Concession -- 7.2.7 Consecution -- Chapter 6. Conclusions -- References -- Name index -- Subject index.