Interpreting Figurative Meaning critically evaluates the recent empirical work from
psycholinguistics and neuroscience examining the successes and difficulties associated …

The Phenomenological Mind, Third Edition introduces fundamental questions about the
mind from the perspective of phenomenology. One of the outstanding books in the field, now …

Grounded cognition rejects traditional views that cognition is computation on amodal
symbols in a modular system, independent of the brain's modal systems for perception …

Abstract Abstract concepts (“freedom”) differ from concrete ones (“cat”), as they do not have
a bounded, identifiable, and clearly perceivable referent. The way in which abstract …

This book is about movement. It is about the necessity of incorporating movement in our
epistemological and metaphysical investigations of the animate world from the very …

A major revolution in the study of metaphor occurred 30 years ago with the introduction of
“conceptual metaphor theory”(CMT). Unlike previous theories of metaphor and metaphorical …

Social cognition is the scientific study of the cognitive events underlying social thought and
attitudes. Currently, the field's prevailing theoretical perspectives are the traditional schema …

This is a revised and updated edition of a seminal text in the field of Cognitive Linguistics,
written in an engaging and accessible style for a new generation of scholars and students …

The essence of religion was once widely thought to be a unique form of experience that
could not be explained in neurological, psychological, or sociological terms. In recent …

A pioneering text in its first edition, this revised publication of Cognitive Poetics offers a
rigorous and principled approach to literary reading and analysis. The second edition of this …