This book contains high-quality research of a theoretical and/or empirical/experimental nature, focusing on the interface between language and cognition. It adopts an interdisciplinary, comparative, multi-methodological approach to the study of language in the general cognitive perspective, as well as theory-based practical applications.

The book incorporates research from the full range of subject disciplines, theoretical backgrounds, and analytical frameworks that inform the language and cognitive sciences

Contents
Preface
1. Seem: Evidential, Epistemic, or What Else? A Study in Cognitive Semantics
2. Manner of Motion: A Privileged Dimension of German Expressions
3. Metaphorical Motion in Linguistic Context: Processing in English and Spanish
4. Culture in Embodiment: Evidence from Conceptual Metaphors/Metonymies of Anger in Akan and English
5. Attentional Profiles of Parenthetical Constructions: Some Thoughts on a Cognitive-Semantic Analysis of Written Language
6. The Socially Embedded and Dynamically Embodied Nature of Metonymy’s Prototypicality
7. Perception of Emotional Interjections
8. Creative Cognition: A ‘Wave Method’ Analysis of Franz Kafka’s ‘Metamorphosis’
9. Approximative Spaces and the Tolerance Threshold in Communication
10. When My Eyes Are on You, Do You Touch My Eyes? A Reclassification of Metaphors Mapping from Physical Contact to Perception
Index

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