BY WORD OF MOUTH -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- A Survey of Metalinguistic Metaphors -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Previous research -- 2. Objectives -- 3. The data -- 4. The conduit metaphor revisited -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- Body Parts in Linguistic Action: Underlying Schemata and Value Judgements -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Structuring the linguistic action domain: use of the body -- 2. Value judgements -- 3. Summary, discussion and further perspectives -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Assessing Linguistic Behaviour: A Study of Value Judgements -- 0. Introduction -- 1. Approach -- 2. The value of the questionnaires -- 3. The data -- 4. Donor domains for the evaluation of linguistic behaviour -- 5. Scales and value judgements -- 6. Context-dependent and context-independent value judgements -- 7. General conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix: the questionnaires -- Levels of Metaphorization: The Case of Put -- 1. Aims and means -- 2. Recoverability, specificity, metaphoricity -- 3. Tһe put-metaphors -- 4. Conclusions -- Notes -- Metaphtonymy: The Interaction of Metaphor and Metonymy in Figurative Expressions for Linguistic Action -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Metaphor and metonymy -- 3. The target domain: linguistic (inter)action -- 4. Databaseand donor domains -- 5. Analysis of the sound data -- 6. The violent action data -- 7. The body part corpus -- 8. Some further perspective -- From Three Respectable Horses' Mouths: Metonymy and Conventionalization in a Diachronically Differentiated Data Base -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Metonymy -- 3. Metaphtonymy -- 4. The data -- 5. A domain matrix for muÞ, mouth(e), mouth -- 6. Metonymy in perspective -- 7. Conventionalization -- 8. Some final perspective -- Metaphor, Schema, Invariance: The Case of Verbs of Answering -- 1. Introduction.

2. Verbs of Answering -- 3. Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Subject Index.