Construing Experience Through Meaning: A Language-Based Approach to Cognition

Part I: Introduction 1. Theoretical preliminaries Part II: The ideation base 2. Overview of the general ideational potential 3. Sequences 4. Figures 5. Elements 6. Grammatical metaphors 7. Comparison with Chinese Part III: The meaning base as a resource in language processing systems 8. Building an ideation base 9. Using the ideation base in text processing Part IV: Theoretical and descriptive alternatives 10. Alternative approaches to meaning. 11. Distortion and transformation 12. Figures and processes Part V: Language and the construal of experience 13. Language as a multifunctional system and process 14. Construing ideational models: consciousness in daily life and in cognitive science 15. Language and the making of meaning.