Frontmatter -- Introduction: On construing the world / Taylor, John R. -- Seeing it in more than one way / Casad, Eugene H. -- Possession and possessive constructions / Langacker, Ronald W. -- What lack needs to have: A study in the cognitive semantics of privation / Tsohatzidis, Savas L. -- The construal of cause: The case of cause prepositions / Dirven, René -- Conceptual grammaticalization and prediction / Heine, Bernd -- Metaphors of anger in Japanese / Matsuki, Keiko -- Looking back at anger: Cultural traditions and metaphorical patterns / Geeraerts, Dirk / Grondelaers, Stefan -- Anger: Its language, conceptualization, and physiology in the light of cross-cultural evidence / Kövecses, Zoltán -- The metaphorical conception of mind: "Mental activity is manipulation" / Jäkel, Olaf -- Vantage theory / MacLaury, Robert E. -- The terror of Montezuma: Aztec history, vantage theory, and the category of "person" / Hill, Jane H. / MacLaury, Robert E. -- Selection of Japanese categories during social interaction / Aoyagi, Munekazu H. -- Genus, species, and vantages / Lansing, Jeff -- On construing the world of language / Love, Nigel -- Index of names -- Subject index -- Contributors |