Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Personal and interpersonal gesture spaces: Functional contrasts in language and gesture -- The role of compound pragmatic markers in the construction of Catalan oral narrative -- Analyzing narrative informativeness in speech and writing -- Usage-based and form-focused SLA: The implicit and explicit learning of constructions -- Perspective shifts in ASL narratives: The problem of clause structure -- Making dative a case for semantic analysis: Differences in use between native and non-native speakers of German -- Personal pronouns, blending, and narrative viewpoint -- Meaning construction in humorous discourse: Context and incongruities in conceptual blending -- Mental spaces and mental verbs in early child English -- Spanish gustar vs. English like: A cognitive analysis of the constructions and its implication for SLA -- The development of verb-argument structure in child discourse: On the use of construction variation in peer play -- Another look at French split intransitivity -- BORING: It's anything but -- It's like making a soup: Metaphors and similes in spoken news discourse -- A discourse approach to metaphor: Explaining systematic metaphors for literacy processes in a school discourse community -- 'Superschemas' and the grammar of metaphorical mappings -- Backmatter.