Cognitive Linguistics Investigations -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Biographical information -- Introduction -- 1. The cognitive linguistics agenda -- 2. Outline of this volume -- References -- I. Cultural models and conceptual mappings -- When does cognitive linguistics become cultural? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Operational concepts -- Scenarios -- Discourse scenarios and discursives -- Categories: Complex, radial, and polycentric -- 3. Case studies -- Case 1: Grammatical voice and emotion language in Tagalog5 -- Case 2: Shona noun classifiers as polycentric categories -- 4. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- Purple persuasion -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Voting -- Palatable candidates -- Stinky candidates -- Public conversation -- Sending a message -- Legal act of civil disobedience -- Summary -- 3. Purple point of contact -- Let's have church here in your home -- Testimony -- Sowing the seed of 5, 10, or 20 -- The purple envelope please -- Summary -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Depicting fictive motion in drawings -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Study 1 -- Method -- Results and discussion -- 3. Study 2 -- Method -- Results and discussion -- 4. Study 3 -- Method -- Results and discussion -- 5. General discussion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Examples of drawings from Experiment 1 -- Examples of drawings from Experiment 2 -- Discourse, gesture, and mental spaces manoeuvers -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Discourse processing theory -- 3. Mental Spaces Theory [`MST'] -- 4. Data -- 5. Gestures in discourse -- What counts as gesture? -- The `comfort zone' -- Gesture types -- 6. Mental spaces manoeuvers -- 7. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- II. Computational models and conceptual mappings -- In search of meaning.

1. Introduction -- High-dimensional semantic space and lexical representation -- Emergent semantic structures in connectionist networks -- 2. Cryptotype as an emergent category and as a trigger for overgeneralization -- Whorf's cryptotype -- Cryptotype and morphological productivity in child language -- A connectionist account of cryptotype and its acquisition -- 3. A feed-forward network that learns to map semantic features of verbs to prefixes -- Method -- Results and discussion -- 4. A self-organizing network that learns to map semantic features to prefixes -- Method -- Results and discussion -- 5. General discussion and conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- Grammar and language production -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The roles of lexicon and grammar in a theory of language production -- 3. Pause patterns relative to function words -- Some quantitative data -- Constructions: The case of determiners -- 4. Infinitival conjunctions and prepositions -- Om-clauses -- Prepositions -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Word recognition and sound merger -- 1. Introduction -- Complete neutralization -- Predictable partial neutralization -- Unpredictable partial neutralization -- 2. Production data on the ear/air merger -- Regional differences -- Age differences -- Homophony across age groups -- Linguistic context -- Lexical frequency -- Minimal contrast -- Phonetic context -- Summary of production data -- 3. Word recognition and sound merger -- Word recognition in the merger process -- Speaker age and phonological status -- A conflict of two systems? -- Ambiguity in context -- 4. Closing comments -- References -- III. Linguistic components and conceptual mappings -- Verbal explication and the place of NSM semantics in cognitive linguistics -- 1. Friend, foe, or fellow traveller? -- The natural semantic metalanguage approach.

2. The indispensability of verbal explication -- Diagrams are not enough -- Scenarios, models and conceptual metaphor -- 3. The challenge of abstract, culture-laden vocabulary -- Malay ikhlas vs. English sincere -- Japanese omoiyari vs. English empathy -- 4. Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Appendix 1 -- Semantic primes - English exponents (after Goddard & Wierzbicka Eds., 2002) -- Appendix 2 -- Selected NSM studies of languages other than English -- ``How do you know she's a woman?'' -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Views of categorisation -- 3. Defining features of kiz and kadin -- 4. Typical features -- 5. Context and topic -- Women and men -- Other collocations -- 6. Causes and effects of category stress -- 7. Caveats and conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Cross-linguistic polysemy in tactile verbs -- 1. Introduction: Tactile perception and emotions -- 2. Metaphorical scope of tactile verbs revisited -- 3. Compositional polysemy: The semantic packaging of lexical items -- 4. Cross-linguistic polysemy: Meaning and lexicalisation across languages -- 5. Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- How experience structures the conceptualization of causality -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Two models of causation -- 3. Transitivity and ergativity in the field of killing -- 4. Examples of experiential grounding -- Focus on volitionality -- Accidental causation -- The ergative predilection of the suffocate verbs -- Ideologically determined transitivization -- 5. Conclusions and prospects -- Notes -- References -- Internal state predicates in Japanese -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Japanese internal state predicates -- Other properties of Japanese internal state predicates -- 3. Cognitive Grammar approach to subjectivity -- Definition of linguistic subjectivity -- The subjectivity scale -- 4. Subjective construal and Japanese internal state predicates.

The speaker's role -- Difference in the default pattern in subjectivity -- The role in the event structure -- Subjective construal in the Japanese language -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Figure, ground and connexity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Connexity/dependence -- 3. Background and foreground information -- 4. Some points on past approaches -- 5. Connexity, grounding and Xhosa narrative -- The consecutive mood -- The participial mood -- The continuous tense -- 6. Discussion -- References -- Discourse organization and coherence -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The narrative study -- Episode and episode boundary -- Stimulus material -- 3. Method and procedures -- 4. Results and discussion -- Episodic structure -- Achieving and maintaining coherence -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Name index -- Subject index -- The series Human Cognitive Processing.